What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?
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Sir, I once knew a young man who, having visited countries where liberty and equality were the rule, then decided to defend these principles in his own country. Do you know what happened to him ... He was hanged.Frederick II
He who defends everything defends nothing.
Frederick II
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick II
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 II
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Frederick II
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