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Frederick The Great
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Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
Frederick The Great
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.
Frederick The Great
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.
Frederick The Great
My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Frederick The Great
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.
Frederick The Great
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Frederick The Great
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
Frederick The Great
Man is made for error it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.
Frederick The Great
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Frederick The Great
It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.
Frederick The Great
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
Frederick The Great
Be more than you seem to be.
Frederick The Great
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.
Frederick The Great
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
Frederick The Great
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick The Great
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.
Frederick The Great
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
Frederick The Great
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
Frederick The Great
The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
Frederick The Great
