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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Expectations
Expect
Prepared
Everything
Nothing
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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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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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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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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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