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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
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Misfortune
Misfortunes
Meet
Divine
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Men
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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 love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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