A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
--Sophie Swetchine
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
--Sophie Swetchine
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
--Sophie Swetchine
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
--Sophie Swetchine
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
--Sophie Swetchine
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
--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
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
--Sophie Swetchine
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
--Sophie Swetchine
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
--Sophie Swetchine
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
--Sophie Swetchine
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
--Sophie Swetchine
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
--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
One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
--Sophie Swetchine
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
--Sophie Swetchine
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
--Sophie Swetchine
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
--Sophie Swetchine
Poor humanity!- so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
--Sophie Swetchine
Repentance is accepted remorse.
--Sophie Swetchine
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
--Sophie Swetchine
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
--Sophie Swetchine
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
--Sophie Swetchine
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
--Sophie Swetchine
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
--Sophie Swetchine
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
--Sophie Swetchine
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
--Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
--Sophie Swetchine
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
--Sophie Swetchine
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
--Sophie Swetchine
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
--Sophie Swetchine
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
--Sophie Swetchine
There is a transcendent power in example.
--Sophie Swetchine
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
--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
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others
--Sophie Swetchine
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
--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
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
--Sophie Swetchine
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
--Sophie Swetchine
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
--Sophie Swetchine
We are rich only through what we give.
--Sophie Swetchine
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
--Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
--Sophie Swetchine
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
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
--Sophie Swetchine
Youth should be a savings bank.
--Sophie Swetchine
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