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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.

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

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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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.

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.

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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