... was truly best for the community: it took precedence over the selfish, short-sighted desires of particular individuals. MAN IS BORN FREE and everywhere he is in chains. Prussia's Frederick II the great like to call himself "the first servant of the state." The great philosophe Voltaire spent several years at Frederick's court in Potsdam. Catharine the Great had long private ... families toleration so they could return to Prussian lands. Catherine the Great is the other most famous enlightened ruler in Europe. She came to the throne after the made empress Elizabeth, who followed Peter th...

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