Sophie Swetchine Men Quotations

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

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

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.