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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.
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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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 expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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