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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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 expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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