Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Body Copy Share Image
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Conscience Copy Share Image
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Alms Copy Share Image
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Better world Copy Share Image
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Bitterest Copy Share Image
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Envy Copy Share Image
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Beautiful Copy Share Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Income Copy Share Image
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Anxious Copy Share Image
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Awakening Copy Share Image
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Action Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Age Copy Share Image
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Alive Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Authorship Copy Share Image
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Affair Copy Share Image
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Conscience Copy Share Image
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Another life Copy Share Image
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Artist Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Admiration Copy Share Image
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Ignorance Copy Share Image
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Beauty Copy Share Image
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Abundance Copy Share Image
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Courtiers Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Character Copy Share Image
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Acceptance Copy Share Image
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Happiness Copy Share Image
