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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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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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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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