Quotes by Catherine Catherine II

• I am one of the people who love the why of things.
• I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
• I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
• I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
• In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
• In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
• Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
• Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
• The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
• Your wit makes others witty.
• 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.