Catherine the Great Short Quotes

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From the age of ten, Peter III was partial to drink.

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

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

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

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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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It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.

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

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I... felt little more than indifference towards him, though I was not indifferent to the Russian Crown.

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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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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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The Usage of Torture is contrary to all the Dictates of Nature and Reason; even Mankind itself cries out against it, and demands loudly the total Abolition of it.

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The title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was.... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

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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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