Frederick the Great:

A man who is too sensitive to the world and too much given to reflection will find it hard to endure the slings and arrows of misfortune.

— Frederick the Great Early Modern

Prussian king

From his philosophical writings, likely 'Anti-Machiavel' or 'Letters to his friends'

c. 1740s-1780s

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