Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792–1870) was a poet of French-Swiss origin. He was a thorough Genevese and a biting satirist, a pensive poet, the Genevese La Bruyère, as he liked to be called, but was not fully appreciated till after his death, when his widely scattered writings were brought together.
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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Self-Control
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Conscience
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Education
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Honesty
There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one’s dearest friends.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Indifference
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Pleasure
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Humility
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
Topics: Experience
Let us repect gray hairs, especially our own.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Age
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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