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Youth should be a savings bank.
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
Savings
Bank
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Youth
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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