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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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