Quote

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Higher
Kite
True
Kites
Like
Bravery
Perseverance
Raises
Contrary
Courage
Wind

More quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Image
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes our vices consume our capital.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
No woman dares express all she thinks.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack dead, we remember only those they possessed.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn