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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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Transcendent
Example

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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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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.
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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 chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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?
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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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.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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