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Authors & Writing
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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
-Frederick the Great
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Concentration
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In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
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Dissent
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I love opposition that has convictions.
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Experience
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What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
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Fate & Destiny
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I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
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Government
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An educated people can be easily governed.
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Individuality
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Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
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Knowledge
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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
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Military, the
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Rogues, would you live forever?
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Philosophy
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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Pleasure
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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.
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Religion
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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
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Talent
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Talents go by nature not by birth.
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Truth
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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.
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Books by and about Frederick the Great