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Your wits make others witty.
Your wit makes others witty.
There is no justice among men.
I am just a plain, common man.
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
bad news travels faster than good.
I cannot live one day without love.
I praise loudly and I blame softly.
Lord, save Russia and bring her peace.
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
self-interest usually brings injustice with it.
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.
All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
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.
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
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.
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.
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.
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.