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Jean Antoine Petit Senn Inspirational Quotes (55)

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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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There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.
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Without big words, how could many people say small things?
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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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Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
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In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
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In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
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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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It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
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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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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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Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
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The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
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Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
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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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Our virtues live upon our incomes our vices consume our capital.
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That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
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Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
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Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
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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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We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
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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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How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
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