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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
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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