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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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
Love
Triumph
Victory
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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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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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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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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 do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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