Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
1792–1870 Switzerland
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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.
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It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
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It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
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It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them.
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Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
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None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
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Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
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Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
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Pleasure limps for him who enjoys it alone.
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Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
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Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
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Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
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The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
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The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
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Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
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