Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes

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To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs!

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The flavor of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In love, what we take has greater price than what is given.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn