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Queen Christina
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“Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.”
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“We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.”
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“We grow old more through indolence than through age.”
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“I was born, have lived, and will die free.”
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“Ignorance is not innocence.”
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“Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.”
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“There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.”
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“Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.”
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“... dignity is like a perfume; those who use perfumes are scarcely conscious of them.”
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“Perhaps they will advise you to demand my hand openly. But I beseech you, by all that is holy, to have patience for some time, until you have acquired a reputation in the war, and until I have a crown on my head. I entreat you not to consider this time as too long to wait, but to think of the old saying: 'He does not wait too long who waits for something good.' And I hope, by God's blessing, that it is indeed a good thing we are both waiting for.”
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“To some people everything is permitted.”
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“He knows the name of a chair in dozens of languages, but he does not know how to sit down on even one.”
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“It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.”
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“It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.”
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“I am sending you two hundred ducats, which is less than you deserve and also less than I should like to give. But my own blushes will avenge you for the smallness of the sum. Say nothing about this to any one or I shall be mortally offended.”
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“Every man is his own worst enemy”
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“One can really love only once.”
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“It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.”
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“Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.”
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“It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.”
Queen Christina, Swedish
(1626 - 1689)
Full name: Queen Christina (or Kristina) Augusta.