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The people say what they like and then I do what I like
Frederick The Great
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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
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.
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It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
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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.
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Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
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I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.
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Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.
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Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.
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Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.
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The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
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Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
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A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.
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In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
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Be more than you seem to be.
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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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.
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A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
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
