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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Least
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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