Federico II di Prussia frasi celebri
dalla lettera a Voltaire del 26 dicembre 1773
Origine: Citato in Dizionario mondiale di Storia, Rizzoli Larousse, Milano, 2003, p. 374. ISBN 88-525-0077-4
“Un principe è il primo servitore ed il primo magistrato dello Stato.”
dalle Memorie di Brandeburgo e da Testamento
“Un soldato deve temere il proprio ufficiale più dei pericoli ai quali viene esposto.”
citato in Paul Henissart, Il nuovo volto dell'esercito tedesco, Selezione dal Reader's Digest, giugno 1973
da L'Antimachiavelli, capitolo XIV
Federico II di Prussia Frasi e Citazioni
“Cacciate i pregiudizi dalla porta, rientreranno dalla finestra.”
dalla lettera a Voltaire del 19 marzo 1771
“Le battaglie hanno luogo per essere decisive! Attaccate, attaccate, attaccate sempre, dunque!”
Origine: Citato in Thomas Mann, Federico e la grande coalizione. Un saggio adatto al giorno e all'ora, a cura di Nada Carli, Edizioni Studio Tesi, 1986.
“Quando Augusto [Augusto II di Polonia] beveva, tutta la Polonia era ubriaca.”
da Épitre première à mon frère le prince de Prusse, 56, citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 463
citato in Alessandro Barbero, Federico il Grande, Sellerio, Palermo 2011
ivi
“La corona è soltanto un cappello che lascia passare la pioggia.”
citato in Alessandro Barbero, Federico il Grande, Sellerio, Palermo 2011
Federico II di Prussia: Frasi in inglese
“Rascals, would you live forever?”
To hesitant guards at the battle of Kolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kol%C3%ADn#Battle, 18 June 1757
Attributed in E. M. Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Kerels, wollt ihr den euwig leben?" Frederick the Great, by David Fraser, Penguin 2000, p. 353 Other versions have it: "Hünde, wollt ihr euwig leben?" (Dogs, do you want to live for ever?).
Attributed
“Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”
Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace! http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8dscs10.txt
We must dare, dare again, always dare!
Georges Danton, speech, Assemblée legislative, Paris (1792-09-02), reported in Le Moniteur (1792-09-04)
Misattributed
1777; quoted by Bert L. Vallée, Alcohol in the Western World, Scientific American, Vol. 278, No. 6 (June), 1998, pp. 80-85
Kindle edition
Attributed
Je voulus faire un jet d’eau dans mon jardin; Euler calcula l’effort des roues pour faire monter l’eau dans un bassin, d’où elle devait retomber par des canaux, afin de jaillir à Sans-Souci. Mon moulin a été exécuté géométriquement, et il n’a pu élever une goutte d’eau à cinquante pas du bassin. Vanité des vanités! vanité de la géométrie!
Letter H 7434 from Frederick to Voltaire (1778-01-25)
Origine: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 6 : New States That The Prince Acquires By His Valor And His Own Weapons
“If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks.”
Attributed in J.A. Houlding, Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795 (Oxford, 1981)
Attributed
Preface to “Histoire de mon temps”, Works (1743), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 82
Origine: Speech at the Academy of Berlin of 27 January 1772 (inside Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi, Saggio sopra i principali metodi d'istruire i fanciulli https://books.google.it/books?id=BUdCqC_j9z8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=it&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false - 1819 - pp. 12-13 )
Origine: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 5 : How It Is Necessary To Control The Cities, Or The Principalities, Which Are Controlled By Their Own Laws Before They Were Conquered
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 37 from Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738)
Attributed by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great (1882), pg 48.
Repeated by Thomas Babington Macaulay in a review of "Frederick the Great and his Times. Edited, with an Introduction, by Thomas Campbell, Esq". Edinburgh Review, ISSN 1751-8482, 04/1842, Volume 75, Issue 151, p. 241-242, though it does not appear in the original work.
Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Attributed
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)
Origine: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 1 : What A Strong Prince Really Is, And How One Can Reach That Point
Ich empfinde für das göttliche Wesen die tiefste Verehrung und hüte mich deshalb sehr, ihm ein ungerechtes, wankelmütiges Verhalten zuzuschreiben, das man beim geringsten Sterblichen verurteilen würde. Aus diesem Grunde, liebe Schwester, glaube ich lieber nicht, dass das allmächtige, gütige Wesen sich im mindesten um die menschlichen Angelegenheiten kümmert. Vielmehr schreibe ich alles, was geschieht, den Geschöpfen und notwendigen Wirkungen unberechenbarer Ursachen zu und beuge mich schweigend vor diesem anbetungswürdigen Wesen, indem ich meine Unwissenheit über seine Wege eingestehe, die mir zu offenbaren seiner göttlichen Weisheit nicht gefallen hat.
Letter to princess Amalie von Preußen
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 221 from Frederick to Voltaire (1777-11-25)
Origine: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 6 : New States That The Prince Acquires By His Valor And His Own Weapons
Origine: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 5 : How It Is Necessary To Control The Cities, Or The Principalities, Which Are Controlled By Their Own Laws Before They Were Conquered
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 141 from Frederick to Voltaire (1759-07-02)
“Like a long boat which follows in the wake of the warship to which it is tied.”
On the decline of the Dutch Republic subject to British power
Attributed in T. C. W. Blanning, The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2000)
Attributed
Military Instructions (1747), Article II: Of the Subsistence of Troops, and of Provisions http://www.sonshi.com/frederickthegreat1-2.html
