Catherine the Great Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Catherine the Great:
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
~Catherine the Great
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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.
~Catherine the Great
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
~Catherine the Great
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
~Catherine the Great
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
~Catherine the Great
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Your wit makes others witty.
~Catherine the Great
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
~Catherine the Great
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All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
~Catherine the Great
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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
~Catherine the Great
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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.
~Catherine the Great
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Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
~Catherine the Great
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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~Catherine the Great
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I am one of the people who love the why of things.
~Catherine the Great
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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.
~Catherine the Great
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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
~Catherine the Great
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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
~Catherine the Great
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If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
~Catherine the Great
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