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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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