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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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
Inferiority
Flattery
Dangerous
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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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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