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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion
Wells
Well
Dupes
Credulity
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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