Catherine II Quotes

"I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster."
- Catherine II
(Related: Soul, Courage, Disaster)

"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly."
- Catherine II
(Related: Blame, Praise, Reward)

"I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his."
- Catherine II
(Related: Trade, Will)

"In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read."
- Catherine II
(Related: Talk, Want)

"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
- Catherine II
(Related: Politics, Circumstances)

"Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30."
- Catherine II
(Related: Love, Men)

"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
- Catherine II
(Related: Power, Confidence, Nation, Nothing)

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."
- Catherine II
(Related: Man)

"Your wit makes others witty."
- Catherine II
(Related: Wit, 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."
- Catherine II
(Related: Feeling)