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Category: Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great

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

Good, You, Reflect

Frederick the Great

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

Rain, Hat, Crown

Frederick the Great

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

Understand, Everything, Mob

Frederick the Great

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Nothing, Everything, He

Frederick the Great

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

Frederick the Great

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

Frederick the Great

As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of No

absurdity, first-law-of-motion, isaac-newton, nothing, physics, void

Frederick the Great

A prince … is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence. … As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the last refuge of the unfortunate.

political-philosophy, politics

Frederick the Great

It is enough”, this malicious man tells us, “to extinguish the line of the defeated prince.” Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?

machiavellianism, politics

Frederick the Great

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

Frederick the Great

Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.

feminism, single-mothers, unlawful-children

Frederick the Great

If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new [[Prometheus]] bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.

machiavellianism, passion