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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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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.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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