I reckoned that, being King, it beseemed me to think as a Sovereign; and I took for principle, that the reputation of a Prince ought to be dearer to him than life.
They have plotted against me; the Court of Vienna has given itself the liberty of trying to maltreat me; my honor commanded me not to suffer it.

We have come to War; a gang of robbers falls on me, pistol in hand: that is the adventure which has happened to me.

The remedy is difficult: in desperate diseases there are no methods but desperate ones.
"I beg a thousand pardons, dear Sister: in these three long pages I talk to you of nothing but my troubles and affairs.

A strange abuse it would be of any other person's friendship.

But yours, my dear Sister, yours is known to me; and I am persuaded you are not impatient when I open my heart to you:--a heart which is yours altogether; being filled with sentiments of the tenderest esteem, with which I am, my dearest Sister, your [in truth, affectionate Brother at all times] F." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxvii.i.294, 295, 296-298.] PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND DOES IT BADLY: FRIEDRICH THEREUPON HAS TO RISE FROM LEITMERITZ, AND TAKE THE FIELD ELSEWHERE, IN BITTER HASTE AND IMPATIENCE, WITH OUTLOOKS WORSE THAN EVER.
The Prince of Prussia's Enterprise had its intricacies; but, by good management, was capable of being done.