"Were it to be possible, we are landless.

Where are our recruits, our magazines, our resources for a new Campaign?
We may as well die, as suffer that to be possible!" Such is Friedrich's fixed view.

He says to D'Argens:-- "You, as a follower of Epicurus, put a value on life; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view.

Never shall I see the moment that forces me to make a disadvantageous Peace; no persuasion, no eloquence, shall ever induce me to sign my dishonor.

Either I will bury myself under the ruins of my Country, or if that consolation appears too sweet to the Destiny that persecutes me, I shall know how to put an end to my misfortunes when it is impossible to bear them any longer.