(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Rogues, would you live forever?

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

An educated people can be easily governed.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

I love opposition that has convictions.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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 II) Frederick The Great

Talents go by nature not by birth.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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 II) Frederick The Great

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great