Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes - Page 3

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• Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

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  Future, Promise, Would Be

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• Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

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  Hair, Age, Sin

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• It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

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  Gossip, Speak, Easy

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• People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

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  Party, People, Politics

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• How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

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  Science, Water, Depth

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

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  Numbers, People, Misery

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• Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

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  Understanding, Crowds, Pot

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• Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

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  Adversity, Severe

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• The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

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  Memories, Crucible, Quality

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• It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

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  Virtue, Easy, Virtuous

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• Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

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  Cost, God Love, Virtue

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• That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

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  Experience, Doe

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• Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

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  Judging, Action, Conscience

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• Without big words, how could many people say small things?

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  People, Bigs, Small Things

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

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  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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• We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

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  Dream, Witty, Remember

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• Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

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  Past, Night, Shining

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• We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

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  Sleep, Envy, Hatred

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• Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

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  Sleep, Awakening, Terrible

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• In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

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  Secret, Secrecy, Liable

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• Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

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  Doors, Next, Pleasure

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• There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

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  Self, Doe, Dearest Friend

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• Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

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  Gray

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• The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

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  Shadow, Sun, Turns

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• Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

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  Titles, Trifles

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