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Famous Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes
“Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.”
“There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.”
“That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.”
“It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.”
“It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.”
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”
“Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”
“The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.”
“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.”
“Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?”
“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.”
“It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.”
“In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”
“Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.”
“How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!”
“There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.”
“The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.”
“Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.”