Frederick II of PrussiaФридрих II
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
1. Если бы мои солдаты начали думать, ни один не остался бы в войске.
1. If my soldiers began to think, not one of them would stay in the army.
From Saying attributed to Frederick II, as printed in Jean Grave's anthology Guerre-Militarisme · close to the original (more).
The anthology Tolstoy probably took it fromSi mes soldats commençaient-à penser, aucun d'eux ne resterait dans les rangs. Frédéric II.
Source text: archive.orgWhat Tolstoy read · Tolstoy's own Russian of it, an epigraph of «Одумайтесь!»Если бы мои солдаты начали думать, ни один не остался бы в войске …
Source text: ru.wikisource.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Saying attributed to Frederick II, as printed in Jean Grave's anthology Guerre-Militarisme (Paris, 1902); not found in Frederick's own writings, Grave, Guerre-Militarisme, chapter «Discipline», p. 317; then Tolstoy's «Одумайтесь!» (1904), among the epigraphs.
Word for word from the French as Grave prints it ('if my soldiers began to think, not one would stay in the ranks'), with no source given; Tolstoy used it first in «Одумайтесь!». The saying is widely quoted as Frederick's but has not been found in his works or letters; treat the attribution as traditional, not verified. Grave prints it just before the end of Lamennais's chapter on the soldiers who 'do not think, they obey' (see 12-20.4).