Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

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[mildred_of_midgard]

I know, I was pleased that the author didn't just take at face value the reasons Moltke could say but noted that there were likely also additional obvious reasons staring him in the face.

(Speaking of true but incomplete reasons, and re our conversation about deceiving your servants, I noted that yesterday that the reasons I gave one of my team members for why I will be attending a particular meeting are technically true, but only about 10% of my real motivation to be in that meeting. It happens!)