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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
Transcendent
Example
Power

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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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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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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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