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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
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Excesses
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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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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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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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.
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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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