Catherine the Great:

I have lived long enough to know that one must not depend on anyone.

— Catherine the Great Early Modern

Russian Empress, expansion

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"The only way to save a nation from itself is to give it a good head."

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"I am a Russian, and I will die a Russian."

"I shall be a despot, but a benevolent one."

"I am not a saint, and I have never pretended to be one."

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