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
honesty men people
I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
expectations prepared
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
gratitude rewards benefits
Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
forgiveness heart
The heart has always the pardoning power.
kindness learning causes
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
germs action
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
confused voice insanity
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"
gratitude language understood
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
romantic deep-love one-direction
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
sorrow limits sides
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
kindness eye steps
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.
aristocracy easy visiting
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
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.
deserve falsehood
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.