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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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
Unhappiness
Unhappy
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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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 reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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