Frederick the Great Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Frederick the Great:

Rogues, would you live forever?
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#cbb17e95

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#f7b3abce

Every man has a wild beast within him.
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#7feb1786

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#ee445827

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#e58064a4

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#a5790b84

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#9be70dd8

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#fa5b0aa2

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
~Frederick the Great


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#edacf898

An educated people can be easily governed.
~Frederick the Great


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#ec83dbba

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#c7319b23

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
~Frederick the Great


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#1c494bd3

He who defends everything defends nothing.
~Frederick the Great


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frederick-the-great-quotes/#626767b8

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