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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Culpable
Excesses
Excess
Harm
Liberty
Doe
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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