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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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