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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
Harm
Liberty
Doe
Culpable
Excesses
Excess
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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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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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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 mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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