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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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
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Dupes
Credulity
Suspicion
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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 most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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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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