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Inspirational Quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
- It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
- Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
- There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
- We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
- Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
- An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
- In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
- What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
- It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
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