Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Generous 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 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
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Bigots Copy Share Image
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Humility 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
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Dream Copy Share Image
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Claims Copy Share Image
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 Danger Copy Share Image
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Bears Copy Share Image
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Body Copy Share Image
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Alas Copy Share Image
Without big words, how could many people say small things? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Big words Copy Share Image
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Chastisement 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
We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Birth Copy Share Image
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Accounts Copy Share Image
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Action Copy Share Image
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Has beens Copy Share Image
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Character Copy Share Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Income Copy Share Image
