"I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Destiny
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"In trying to defend everything he defended nothing."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Focus
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"An educated people can be easily governed."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Government
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"Every man must get to Heaven his own way."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Individuality
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"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) on Kings
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"Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Kings
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"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) on Knowledge
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"Rogues, would you live forever?"

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Army and Navy
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"I love opposition that has convictions."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Opposition
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"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"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) on Pleasure
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"Talents go by nature not by birth."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Talent
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"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) on Truth
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"Our work is to present things that are as they are."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Writers and Writing
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"What is the good of experience if you do not reflect."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Experience
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