"Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer."
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Frederick The Great quotes (page 3 of 3)
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"Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it."
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"A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state."
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"Pleasure is the most real good in this life."
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"I love opposition that has convictions."
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"Every man must get to Heaven his own way."
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"It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire."
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"It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations."
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"Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security."
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"Books make up no small part of human happiness."
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"Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe."
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"Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude."
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"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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"To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy."
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"Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!"
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