Catherine the Great Quotes

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• One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

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  Doe, Doing Your Best, Do The Best

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• I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

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  Peace, Hate, War

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  Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

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  Power, Rehabilitation, Nations

  "And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278, 1992.

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• it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

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  Change, Inspire, Reform

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• The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.

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  Men, Law, Safety

  Proposals for a New Law Code, 1768.

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• Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

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  Heart, Unhappy, Doe

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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.

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  Writing, Power, Men

  Letter to Denis Diderot. "The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany". Book by Colin Bingham, 1969.

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• Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

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  Opinion, Difficult

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• I am one of the people who love the why of things.

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  People

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

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  Change, Creativity, Wind Blowing

  "Daughters of Eve". Book by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192, 1930.

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  I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

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  Rewards, Blame, Quiet

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

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• The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

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

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  Forgiveness, Work, Teaching

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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.

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  May, Lines, Gentle

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

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  Courage, Inspirational Life, Bravery

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• The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

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  People, Perfect, Words Of Wisdom

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• Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

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  Mean, Men, People

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• Don't worry about things you cannot alter

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  Worry

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• I cannot live one day without love.

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  One Day, Hearing Music, Without Love

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• What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

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  Giving, Citizens, Guilty

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• You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

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  Mood, Quarrels, Please

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• self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

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  Self, Injustice, Interest

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• bad news travels faster than good.

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  Negativity, News, Faster

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

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  Wedding, Men, Making Love

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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.

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  Laughter, Gay, Able

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