I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
Catherine the GreatI may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the GreatIn my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Catherine the GreatExperience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.
Catherine the Great