In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
Sophie SwetchineI like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
Sophie SwetchineLet us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
Sophie SwetchineThe symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie SwetchineThose who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Sophie SwetchineThere are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
Sophie SwetchineI 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 SwetchineAntiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
Sophie SwetchineWhen 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 SwetchineWhen 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 SwetchineWe deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie SwetchineIf it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.
Sophie SwetchineThe best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie SwetchineTo 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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