Best Quotes by Catherine the Great (Top 10)
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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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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
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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.
Catherine the Great
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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
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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I am one of the people who love the why of things.
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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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
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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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
More Catherine the Great Quotes
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great
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If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
Catherine the Great