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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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
Perpetual
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Attention
Flattery
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
Sophie Swetchine
Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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
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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
Sophie Swetchine
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
Sophie Swetchine
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
Sophie Swetchine
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Sophie Swetchine
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
Sophie Swetchine
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
Sophie Swetchine
