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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
Sophie Swetchine
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Sophie Swetchine
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
Sophie Swetchine
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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.
Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
Sophie Swetchine
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Sophie Swetchine
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Sophie Swetchine
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
Sophie Swetchine
