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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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 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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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