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1712–1786 Germany
Frederick II of Prussia (January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. He was also known as Friedrich der Große (Frederick the Great)
Also known as: Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel
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Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
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If I had a province to punish, I would let it be governed by philosophers.
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Je puis vous assurer, par mon expérience personnelle, que ce plaisir grec est peu agréable à cultiver.
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Like a long boat which follows in the wake of the warship to which it is tied.
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Rascals, would you live forever?
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I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that “an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly."
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Audacity, audacity, always audacity!
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"My people and I," he said, "have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say 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. Attributed in "The West and the Rest", by Niall Ferguson, Penguin 2011 (Kindle edition).
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