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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
Silent
Attention
Flattery
Perpetual
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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.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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.
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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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