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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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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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