Catherine The Great Quotes

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Your wit makes others witty.

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Catherine the Great
Profession
Royalty
BirthDate
21 April, 1729
DeathDate
06 November, 1796
Country
Russia
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