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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
Malicious
Clumsy
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Enemy
Better
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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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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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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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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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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