How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
Attributed quotes — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
1792–1870 Switzerland
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In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue with bigots.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one’s dearest friends.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
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