King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
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The philosopher-king who hated his father's militarism, then spent forty-six years at war. Frederick turned Prussia from a second-tier German state into the power that would eventually unify Germany, and died so beloved his soldiers called him "Old Fritz."
Born in 1712, Frederick II clashed with his authoritarian father over his love of music and philosophy. Upon taking the throne in 1740, he immediately invaded Silesia and seized it from Austria, revealing a military genius no one had expected. He spent the next decades reorganizing the Prussian army, writing influential military theory drawn from his own battlefield experience, and expanding his kingdom through the First Partition of Poland in 1772. At home he practiced enlightened absolutism—modernizing the bureaucracy, reforming the courts, allowing religious freedom for Protestants, Catholi…
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence.
But a prince, when he binds himself, does not bind himself alone, otherwise he would be in the same position as a private individual.
Truth to tell, treaties are only oaths of deception and faithlessness. The jurisprudence of sovereigns is customarily the law of the strongest.
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.
A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.
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