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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.
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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Sanctity
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Bathe
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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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