Sophie Swetchine
Sophie Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine, known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryRussian Federation
sorrow may way
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.
simple childhood firsts
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.
victory triumph
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
grief humility pride
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.
dupes suspicion wells
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
memories lost steadfast
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
love cold dare
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.
death love-is inspire
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.
pride destiny men
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.
character men judging
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
careers america age
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.
pieces riches silver
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
distance procrastination grace
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
pride would-be remember
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.