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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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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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 are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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 do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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