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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?
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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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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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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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