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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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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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