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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Friends
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Love
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Superiority
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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