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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.
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
May
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Belong
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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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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 make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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