Frederick II
» Army and Navy » “Rogues, would you live forever?”
» Destiny » “I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.”
» Focus » “In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.”
» Government » “An educated people can be easily governed.”
» Individuality » “Every man must get to Heaven his own way.”
» Kings » “They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.”
» Kings » “Don’t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.”
» Knowledge » “It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.”
» Opposition » “I love opposition that has convictions.”
» Philosophers and Philosophy » “If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.”
» Pleasure » “The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.”
» Talent » “Talents go by nature not by birth.”
» Truth » “The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
» Writers and Writing » “Our work is to present things that are as they are.”
