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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
Might
Human
Humans
Mind
Reveals
Intellect
Limits
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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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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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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