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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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Superiority
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Friends
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Love
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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