Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes - Page 2

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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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• It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

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  Taste, Impossible, Admiration

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

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  Men, Weakness, Vices

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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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• 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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• To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

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  Passion, Storm, Tempest

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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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• 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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• The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

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  Soul, Deeds, Action

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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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• Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

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  Heart, Body

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• It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

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  Riches, Rich, Has Beens

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• Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

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  Vices, Income, Virtue

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• The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

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  Knaves, Chastisement, Knows

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• Rage is a short-lived fury.

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  Rage, Fury, Short Lived

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• There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

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  Humanity, World, Littles

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• There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

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  Laughing, Caprice, Please

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• No woman dares express all she thinks.

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  Thinking, Dare, Timidity

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• The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

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  Jailer, Conscience

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• Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

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  Pleasure, Enjoy

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• Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

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  Hair, Age, Sin

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