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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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
Excess
Harm
Liberty
Doe
Culpable
Excesses
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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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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