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Attributed quotes — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

1792–1870 Switzerland

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Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs!

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Let us respect white hair — especially our own.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbour in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbour.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

The flavour of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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