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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
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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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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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