Peter the Great — "The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own."
The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own.
The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own.
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"To have a strong army and navy, one must have money. To have money, one must have trade. To have trade, one must have a sea port."
"For you know yourself that, though a thing be good, if it be new, the people will not do it without compulsion."
"I can conquer the world, but I cannot conquer my own stubbornness."
"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of controversy and challenge."
"My children, do not cry; I have left you a great inheritance."
Russian tsar (1682-1725) who Westernized Russia, founded St. Petersburg, and built Russia into a European great power. Closely associated with Catherine the Great (later Westernizing Russian empress). For an intellectual contrast, see Old Believers, Russian Orthodox traditionalist movement that rejected Patriarch Nikon's reforms and Peter's modernization — Peter's beard-shaving decrees, Western dress laws, and calendar changes triggered a religious-cultural schism — the founding poles of Russia's eternal 'European modernity vs Slavic tradition' debate that runs through Slavophiles, Solzhenitsyn, and contemporary Putin-era ideology.
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