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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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
Paupers
Affection
Souls
Loving
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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