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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Affection
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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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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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