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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
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People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
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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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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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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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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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Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
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There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.
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In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
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Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
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The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
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Without big words, how could many people say small things?
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The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
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Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
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Rage is a short-lived fury.
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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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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.
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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
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Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
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When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack dead, we remember only those they possessed.
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The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
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