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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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
Ceased
Superiority
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Friends
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Love
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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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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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 very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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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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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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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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