Catherine the Great Quotes - Page 2

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• I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

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  Loud Voices, Rewards, Praise

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• you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

  Catherine the Great

  Laughter, Gay, Able

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• If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

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  Gentleman, May, Venture

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• The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.

  Catherine the Great

  Heart, Forever, Want

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• Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

  Catherine the Great

  Long, People, Phrases

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• [On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

  Catherine the Great

  Heart, Men, Weak Man

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• Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

  Catherine the Great

  Wedding, Men, Making Love

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• I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

  Catherine the Great

  Opinion, Conflict, Ends

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• Your wits make others witty.

  Catherine the Great

  Witty, Tongue, Wit

  Letter to Voltaire. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Loise Roberts, 1922.

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• All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

  Catherine the Great

  Punishment, Body, Might

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• I will live to make myself not feared.

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  "The Historians' History of the World". Book by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423, 1903.

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• bad news travels faster than good.

  Catherine the Great

  Negativity, News, Faster

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• In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

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  Conjunctions, Conjecture, Circumstances

  "One Thousand Sayings of History Presented as Pictures in Prose". Book by Walter Fogg, 1971.

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• You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

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  Alcohol, Stronger, Want

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• to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

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  Feelings, Temptation, Mind

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• God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

  Catherine the Great

  Desire, Grants

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• Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.

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  Men, Hands, Merit

  "Woman Through the Ages". Book by Emil Reich, p. 155, 1908.

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• The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

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  Common Sense, Humanity, Sound

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• I praise loudly and I blame softly.

  Catherine the Great

  Blame, Praise

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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

  Writing, Want, Position

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• Your wit makes others witty.

  Catherine the Great

  Witty, Wit

  Letter to Voltaire. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Loise Roberts, 1922.

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• Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

  Catherine the Great

  Grateful, People, Blame

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• To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, 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, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.

  Catherine the Great

  Feelings, Temptation, Already Gone

  "The Memoirs of Catherine the Great". Book translated by Markus Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, 2005.

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