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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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
Better
Malicious
Clumsy
Friend
Enemy
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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 are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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