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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/in-retirement-the-passage-of-time-seems-accelerated-nothing-warns-us/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

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## More by Sophie Swetchine

> [A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/a-good-finished-scandal-fully-armed-and-equipped-such-as-circulates/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/respect-is-a-serious-thing-in-him-who-feels-it-and-the-height-of/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/since-there-must-be-chimeras-why-is-not-perfection-the-chimera-of-all/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/those-who-have-suffered-much-are-like-those-who-know-many-languages/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/men-are-always-invoking-justice-yet-it-is-justice-which-should-make/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/to-reveal-imprudently-the-spot-where-we-are-most-sensitive-and/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [God has prohibited despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/god-has-prohibited-despair/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/there-are-questions-so-indiscreet-that-they-deserve-neither-truth-nor/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/antiquity-is-a-species-of-aristocracy-with-which-it-is-not-easy-to-be/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/the-best-of-lessons-for-a-good-many-people-would-be-to-listen-at-a/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/there-is-by-god-s-grace-an-immeasurable-distance-between-late-and-too/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/a-malicious-enemy-is-better-than-a-clumsy-friend/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/truth-only-is-prolific-error-sterile-in-itself-produces-only-by-means/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/by-becoming-unhappy-we-sometimes-learn-how-to-be-less-so/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

> [Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/our-faults-afflict-us-more-than-our-good-deeds-console-pain-is-ever/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

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