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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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