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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
Superiority
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Friends
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Ceased
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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