Catherine The Great

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.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

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

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

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.

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.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.