Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (Swiss Poet)

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792–1870) was a French-Swiss lyric poet, philosopher, and moralist who achieved great acclaim through his extensive writings in various genres, such as poetry, essays, and aphorisms.

Born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva, Petit-Senn initially pursued his education at the Academy of Geneva. Subsequently, he undertook an apprenticeship with a commercial company in Lyon. In 1813, he returned to Geneva and established himself as a prominent figure within the city’s literary circles. He also served as a member of the Representative Council 1829–39. Additionally, he played a pivotal role in establishing the Journal de Genève in 1826. He took on the sole editorship of his satirical newspaper, Le Fantasque, 1832–36.

Petit-Senn’s literary creations were characterized by astute observations and profound reflections on themes such as love, relationships, morality, and the inner struggles of the human soul. Among his notable works is the collection of poetic and philosophical aphorisms titled Les Bluettes et Boutades (1858) and Aphorismes et Pensées (1861.) Rimes (1867) comprises lyrical verses about love, nature, and spirituality. Philosophical essays in De l’Amour (1870) and De l’âme (1874) delve deeply into these subjects.

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Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Self Respect, Talent

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Envy

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, Illusion

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Self-Control

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Education

Modesty and the dew love the shade. Each shines in the open day only to be exhaled to heaven.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Modesty

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Party

Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Love

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Appreciation, Wealth, Blessings, Goals, Gratitude, Abundance

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Friendship

Let us repect gray hairs, especially our own.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Age

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Courage, Bravery

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Contentment, Belief, Self-improvement

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Conscience

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Humility

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

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Illusion

There are some critics who change everything that comes under their hands to gold; but to this privilege of Midas they join sometimes his ears.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Critics

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Bitterness

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one’s dearest friends.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Self-love

Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Quotations

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Hypocrisy, Vice

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Pleasure

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Age, Aging

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Indifference

Marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest of life; with a bad woman, it is a tempest in the harbor.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Topics: Marriage

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