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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
Reveals
Intellect
Limits
Might
Human
Humans
Mind
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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