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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
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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Judging
Judgment
Character
Men
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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