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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes

1792–1870 Switzerland

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (6 April 1792 – 10 March 1870), also known as John Petit-Senn, was a Swiss novelist, poet, singer, editor and politician.

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In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt—just a little?

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Let us respect gray hairs, but, above all, our own.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! What can we do when they never sleep!

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider’s web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education, is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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