Peter the Great — "The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and conven…"
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.
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"It is a great sin to torture animals without need."
"He who does not change, does not live."
"The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the sword is at the service of the pen."
"For you know yourself that, though a thing be good, if it be new, the people will not do it without compulsion."
"I have no fear of consequences, only of inaction."
About Peter the Great (1672-1725)
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.