Frederick The Great Quotes

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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 more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
• It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of…
• My people must drink beer.
• Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a…
• A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
• Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
• 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…
• If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
• A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
• 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…
• Pleasure is the most real good in this life.
• Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
• 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…
• 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…

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