Top 70 Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

3. “The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

4. “True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

5. “Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt – just a little?”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

6. “Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

7. “Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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8. “It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

10. “No woman dares express all she thinks.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

11. “It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

13. “In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

16. “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.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

17. “In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

19. “The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

20. “Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

23. “When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.”

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

25. “Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

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27. “Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

28. “The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

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

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

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

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33. “Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

34. “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.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

36. “It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

37. “It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

39. “Rage is a short-lived fury.”

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

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

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

44. “Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.”

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45. “Without big words, how could many people say small things?”

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

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47. “Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart’s spoils.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

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49. “There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.”

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn