Catherine the Great Quotes

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great

Courage, Brave, Soul

I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great

Blame, Praise, Softly

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great

Great, Wind, Either

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

Men, Living, Write

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

Business, May, Line

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
Catherine the Great

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

Feeling, Matter, Gone

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

Feeling, Matter, Gone

I am one of the people who love the why of things.
Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
Catherine the Great

Blame, Praise, Reward

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
Catherine the Great

Forgiveness, Good, Forgive

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine the Great

Good, Forgive, Lord

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
Catherine the Great

Off, Write, Read

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Catherine the Great

Talk, Write, Read

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Catherine the Great

Politics, Capable, Ruler

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
Catherine the Great

Love, Men, However

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great

Power, Confidence, Nothing

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

Knows, Forgives

Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine the Great

Others, Makes, Witty

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Born: April 21, 1729

Died: November 6, 1796

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