True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn