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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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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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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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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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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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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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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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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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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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