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I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
The Historians' History of the World (1904)
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
The Laws ought to be so framed, as to secure the Safety of every Citizen as much as possible.
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
I will live to make myself not feared.
The Historians' History of the World (1904)
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Daughters of Eve (1930)
The Usage of Torture is contrary to all the Dictates of Nature and Reason; even Mankind itself cries out against it, and demands loudly the total Abolition of it.
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
As a ruler, Catherine professed a great contempt for system … She declared that in politics a capable ruler must be guided by "circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
From the age of ten, Peter III was partial to drink.
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.
Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.
Woman Through the Ages (1908)
A Man ought to form in his own Mind an exact and clear Idea of what Liberty is. Liberty is the Right of doing whatsoever the Laws allow: And if any one Citizen could do what the Laws forbid, there would be no more Liberty; because others would have an equal Power of doing the same.
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
That Law, therefore, is highly beneficial to the Community where it is established, which ordains that every Man shall be judged by his Peers and Equals. For when the Fate of a Citizen is in Question, all Prejudices arising from the Difference of Rank or Fortune should be stifled; because they ought to have no Influence between the Judges and the Parties accused.
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
In a State or Assemblage of People that live together in a Community, where there are Laws, Liberty can only consist in doing that which every One ought to do, and not to be constrained to do that which One ought not to do.
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
Your wit makes others witty.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
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