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Attributed quotes — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

1792–1870 Switzerland

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Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Pleasure limps for him who enjoys it alone.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

True courage is like a kite: a contrary wind raises it higher.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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