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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Men
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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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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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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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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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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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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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