{"id":4628,"date":"2019-08-09T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=4628\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:33:30","slug":"catherine-great-portrait-woman-robert-masie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2019\/08\/09\/catherine-great-portrait-woman-robert-masie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;CATHERINE THE GREAT: portrait of a woman&#8221; by Robert Masie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Catherine-the-Great.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Catherine-the-Great-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Catherine-the-Great-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Catherine-the-Great.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Catherine the Great is recognized for her progressist rulership, but she is also known for the large number of lovers she took outside of her marriage. You have to take into consideration that eight years after her marriage, she was still a virgin&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Although she had understood from the beginning that to love a husband who was not lovable and who made no effort to become so was a difficult and probably impossible task, she believed that she had made a sincere effort to devote herself to him and his interests.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to read her account of herself when she was an older woman, and she was looking at herself and her life:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;My natural pride made the idea of being miserable intolerable to me. I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so your happiness may be independent of all outside events.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I had been born with this disposition, and a face that was, at the very least, interesting, and which pleased at first sight without art or pretense. <br \/>\nMy disposition was naturally so conciliatory that no one ever spent a quarter of an hour with me without feeling perfectly at ease and talking to me as though they had known me for a long time.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I easily won the confidence of those who had anything to do with me because everyone felt that I displayed honesty and goodwill.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;I have just said that I was attractive; consequently, half the road of temptation was already traveled, and it is only human in such situations that one should not stop half way. <br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>For to tempt and to be tempted are closely allied and, in spite of all the finest maxims of morality, whenever emotion has anything to do with the matter, one is already much further involved than one realizes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>And I have still not learned how to prevent emotion being excited. <br \/>\nFlight, perhaps, is the only remedy. But there are cases and circumstances, in which flight is impossible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>And if you do not run away, nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to escape from something that essentially attracts you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>All statements made to contrary will appear only a prudishness quite out of harmony with the natural instincts of the human heart.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Besides, one cannot hold one&#8217;s heart in one&#8217;s hand, tightening or relaxing one&#8217;s grasp at will.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine the Great is recognized for her progressist rulership, but she is also known for the large number of lovers she took outside of her marriage. 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