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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
Becoming
Less
Learn
Sometimes
Unhappiness
Unhappy
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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 fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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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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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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