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The Anti Machiavel of Frederick the Great

Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, consisting of a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal of The Prince, the 16th-century book by Niccolò Machiavelli, and Machiavellianism in general. It was first published in September

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“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like this does not fight this unhappy provision of his soul during his youth, under no circumstances could he a void becoming furious—and foolish. There are those who w…”

— Frederick Ii, amazon.com

Tagged: cruel, Misanthropic, Moods, furious, foolish

“If it is bad to debase the innocence of a private individual, whose influence on the affairs of the world is minimal, it is much more to pervert some prince who must control his people, administer justice, and set an example for their subjects;””

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

Tagged: Innocence, Debase, Private Individual, Justice, Princes

“Compare Holland with Russia; you see only marshy and sterile islands in the former, which rise from the center of the ocean: a small republic which is only 48 miles length by 40 wide. But this small body is the very nerve-center of the region: immense people live in it, and these industrious people…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

Tagged: Holland, Russia, Spanish Domination, Europe

“It is a fact that princes who try to raise other princes with violence, end up destroying themselves.”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

Tagged: Princes, Violence, Self-Destruction

“Machiavel's The Prince is to ethics what the work of Spinoza is to faith. Spinoza sapped the fundamentals of faith, and drained the spirit of religion; Machiavel corrupted policy, and undertook to destroy the precepts of healthy morals: the errors of the first were only errors of speculation, but th…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

Tagged: Machiavelli, The Prince, Corruption