The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Conscience 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
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Adversity Copy Share Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Humblest Copy Share Image
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Children Copy Share Image
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn 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
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
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
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
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
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
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn 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 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
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
Without big words, how could many people say small things? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn 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
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 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
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — 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
