Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn - Page 2

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

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

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.