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
enemy force
One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
attention flattery silent
Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
miracle coups
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
life
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
love heart reflection
Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.
grief winter youth
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
deserve falsehood
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
retirement flow obstacles
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.
hands together virtue
Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
silence nightfall lost
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
world action method
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
inspirational next eternity
What I value most next to eternity is time.
liberty doe excess
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
god action forget
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.