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“Books make up no small part of human happiness.”
― Frederick the Great

“He who defends everything, defends nothing.”
― 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 the Great

“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.”
― 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.”
― Friedrich der große, Erster Diener Seines Staates: Friedrich Der Grosse In Ausgewählten Zitaten

“THE MORE I SEE OF MEN, THE BETTER I LIKE MY DOG." ~ Frederick the Great”
― Frederick the Great

“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”
― Frederick the Great

“He who cannot stand misfortune does not deserve good fortune.”
― Frederick the Great

“We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.”
― Frederick II of Prussia

“Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.”
― 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.”
― Frederick II of Prussia

“In my state every man can be saved after his own fashion.”
― Frederick the Great

“The people say what they like and then I do what I like”
― Frederick the Great

“The floods which devastate regions, the fire of the lightning which reduces cities to ashes, the poison of the plague which afflicts provinces, are not as disastrous in the world as the dangerous morals and unrestrained passions of the kings:”
― Frederick the Great, The Anti Machiavel of Frederick the Great

“A private individual who has the misfortune to have been born with this lust for power, is more miserable than mad. He is dulled to the present, and exists only in future or imaginary times; nothing in the world can satisfy him, and the drunken ambition which has mastered him always adulterates the softness of his pleasures with bitterness.”
― Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel

“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?”
― Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel

“An Englishman had the insanity to kill himself a few years ago in London; on his table was found a note where he justified his action, which said that this way, he would never become sick again.”
― Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel

“The Prussian army always attacks.”
― Frederick the Great

“If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.”
― Frederick the Great

“How could a republic resist, for all time, every cause which undermines its freedom? How could it always contain the ambition of the would-be princes which it also nourishes? How could it withstand for long the seductions of the usurper, the practical deaf person, and the corruption of its members, as long as self-interest will be all-powerful in men? How can it hope to always win, or even leave with honour, every war which it will have to support? How will it be able to prevent these annoying economic situations that come with its freedom, these moments critical and decisive - these and other chances from which arise both the courageous ones and the corrupt? If the troops are ordered by loose and timid heads, it will become the prey of its enemies; and if they have as the head of their soldiers men that are vigorous and bold, these same men, after having been vital in the war, will be dangerous in peace.”
― Frederick the Great, Anti-Machiavel