What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Gains 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
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Fortune Copy Share Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Learning 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
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Hospitals 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
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Certain 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
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Doe 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
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
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Acceptance 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
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Ignorant Copy Share Image
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Broads Copy Share Image
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Addiction 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 Delicate Copy Share Image
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Children 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
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Adversity Copy Share Image
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Crucible 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
