1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Government]
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Kings]
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Individuality]
I love opposition that has convictions.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Opposition]
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Destiny]
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Philosophers and Philosophy]
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Focus]
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Knowledge]
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Writers and Writing]
Rogues, would you live forever?
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Army and Navy]
Talents go by nature not by birth.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Talent]
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.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Pleasure]
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.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Truth]
They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II) – [Kings]