73 Quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

No woman dares express all she thinks.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.