Quote

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Pleasure
Next
Live
Satiety
Door
Doors

More quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Image
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
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
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch it is little more than a stick
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
Image
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Rage is a short-lived fury.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
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
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
No woman dares express all she thinks.
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
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it we remember it if he forgets it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn