Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
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Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Destiny
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Government
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Individuality
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Focus
They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Kings
Don t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Kings
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Knowledge
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Pleasure
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Philosophers and Philosophy
I love opposition that has convictions.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Opposition
Talents go by nature not by birth.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Talent
The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Truth
Rogues, would you live forever?
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Army and Navy
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
Writers and Writing