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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
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Ceased
Superiority
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Friends
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Love
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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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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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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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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