There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
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
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
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