A Quote by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
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If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.
Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.]
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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