- Tsar Peter the Great
(05/30/1672 – 01/28/1725)
Russian royalty, in a letter to his son
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"How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you... but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself."
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"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."
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"Credit you give yourself is not worth having."
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"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
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| "Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!" |
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"Today was tomorrow yesterday, so don't inhale."
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"I think that if Pat Buchanan became president we would be in camps before the month was out. I don't doubt that. There is a mostly male, predominantly white, ruling elite in this country and all of the presidental candidates are chosen from their number. They're all beholden to wealth and property and corporate interest; that's just how you get elected in this country. There are no welfare mothers or homeless people or construction workers or auto workers running for president, it's all millionaries and billionaires and the fact that 1% of the population controls more than a third of all the wealth and 40 million live in total poverty ... And everybody else is fighting over the leftovers and are on each other's throats, and that's reflected everytime we have an election. Most people are just disregarded."
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"Silence is refreshment for the soul."
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