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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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Men
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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