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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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
Limits
Might
Human
Humans
Mind
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Intellect
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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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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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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