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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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