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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
Misfortunes
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Divine
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Men
Misfortune
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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