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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Enemy
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Malicious
Clumsy
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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