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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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 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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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