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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
Health
Perfume
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Sanity
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Must
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Sanctity
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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