Quote

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Finding
Masters
Whose
Servants
Worst
Consists
Happiness
Fault
Perfect
Servant
Certain
Faults
Would
Findings

More quotes by 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
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
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
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
No woman dares express all she thinks.
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
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Rage is a short-lived fury.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
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
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
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
Image
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Image
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn