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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
Health
Perfume
Firsts
Sanity
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Holiness
Must
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Men
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Bathe
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Sanctity
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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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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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