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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
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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