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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.

  Frederick The Great

  Agreement, People, Prussia

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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.

  Frederick The Great

  Kings, May, Reincarnation

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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.

  Frederick The Great

  Christian, Eating, Treats

  Letter 215 to Voltaire on March 19, 1776. "Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great", translated by Richard Aldington, 1927.

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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!

  Frederick The Great

  Vanity, Water, Yards

  Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great. Letter 221, 1927.

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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.

  Frederick The Great

  Eye, Math, Half

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