“Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.” Quote by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.” TurnsSunShadowCringeServilityCourtiers Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.” UnderstandingCrowdsPotPints Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.” VirtueVicesIncome Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“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.” PassionProtectStormHarborsTempestWedlockBad Woman Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.” SaidDreamRememberWittyWit Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.” CausesEducationWeaknessMediocrityWomen's Education Author:Joseph de Maistre