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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
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Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our virtues live upon our incomes our vices consume our capital.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn