Christina, Queen of Sweden Quotes

• It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Independence, World, Whole

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• Ignorance is not innocence.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Ignorance, Innocence

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• I was born, have lived, and will die free.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Freedom, Born, Dies

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• You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

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  Stupid, Men, Evil

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• There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Stars, Order, Soul

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• Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

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  Use, Sweden, Dignity

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• I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

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  Inspiration, Men, Sweden

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• We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Age, Sweden, Indolence

  Maxims (1660 - 80)

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• Every man is his own worst enemy

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Men, Worst Enemy, Every Man

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• We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Reading, Instruction, Consolation

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• As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

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  Men, Years, Age

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• God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Shapes, Speak, Metaphor

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• Life is too short to be able to love as one should.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Love, Life Is Too Short, Able

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• Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

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  Army, Weakness, Collections

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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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  Royalty, Enough, Difficult

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• Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Unhappy, Different, Sweden

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• There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Royalty, Prisoner, Guarded

  Christina (Queen of Sweden) (1753). “The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great”, p.98

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• It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Deception, Deceiving, Deceived

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• Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Marriage, Pleasure, Pale

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• To some people everything is permitted.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  People, Charm

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• One can really love only once.

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