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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
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More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Sophie Swetchine
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Sophie Swetchine
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 culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
Sophie Swetchine
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Sophie Swetchine
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
