Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Inspirational
Needs
Deceive
Hype
Deceiving
Fancy
Weakness
Strength
Support
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Sophie Swetchine
People read every thing nowadays, except books.
Sophie Swetchine
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Youth should be a savings bank.
Sophie Swetchine
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Sophie Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Sophie Swetchine
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Sophie Swetchine
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Sophie Swetchine
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
