142 Quotes by Sophie Swetchine

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.

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.

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

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.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.