Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes

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• The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

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  Happiness, Hatred, Enemy

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• Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Karma

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• It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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• Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

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  Flames, Envy

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• An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

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  Bitterness, Vindictive, Angry Women

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• What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

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  Gains, Illusion, Loses

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• Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

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  White, Experience, Frost

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• In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

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  Humility, Portraits, Humility And Modesty

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• When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

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  Death Of A Friend, Quality, Alive

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• Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

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  Heart, Wrinkles, Youth

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• The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

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  Happiness, Heart, Tender Hearts

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• Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

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  Eye, Hypocrisy, Vices

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• Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

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  Motivational, Temptation, Self Control

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• Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

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  Beautiful, Flirting, Littles

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• The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

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  Shunning, Overcoming, Virtuous Woman

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• To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

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  Sex, Moving, Keys

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• There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

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  Sweet, Memories, Errors

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• There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

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  Beauty, Earth, Natural

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• We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

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  Giving, Tire, Pleasure

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• A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Pedants, Knows

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• Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

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  Daughter, Spring, Soul

  "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.

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• Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

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  Heart, Body

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• In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

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  Giving, Charity, Needs

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• We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

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  Birth, Remember, Forget

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• Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

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  Public Opinion, Popularity, Please

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