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Frederick The Great
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Be more than you seem to be.
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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.
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It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
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I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus it does not occupy itself with the probable truth moreover it has the same method in every country.
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You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.
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The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
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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.
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It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.
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Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.
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Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
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If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
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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.
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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.
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A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
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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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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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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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It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.
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