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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

Feeling

Your wit makes others witty.

Catherine II

Wit

Witty

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Catherine II

Man

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

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Love

Men

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

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Politics

Circumstances

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Catherine II

Talk

Want

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

Catherine II

Trade

Will

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

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

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

Catherine II

Love

People