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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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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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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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