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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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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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