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Catherine the Great Quotes

«I praise loudly, I blame softly»
«I am one of the people who love the why of things»
«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.»
«If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off»
«A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.»
«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.»
«In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .»
«I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.»
«Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.»
«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.»