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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
Men
Misfortune
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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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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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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