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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
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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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