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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Attention
Flattery
Perpetual
Silent
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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 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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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.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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