AugustineАвгустин
2 passagesотрывков: 2
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.
3. Всегда прибавляй, всегда подвигайся; никогда не стой и не возвращайся назад и не сворачивай. Кто стоит, тот не подвигается; кто не продолжает, тот идет назад; кто возмущается, тот сворачивает.
Всегда будь недоволен тем, чтó ты есть, если хочешь достигнуть того, чтобы быть иным, чем ты есть, потому что на чем ты остановишься, на том ты и останешься. Если же ты скажешь: с меня довольно — ты погиб.
3. Always add, always advance; never stand still, and do not go back, and do not turn aside. Whoever stands still does not advance; whoever does not keep on goes backward; whoever rebels turns aside.
Always be dissatisfied with what you are, if you want to attain to being other than you are; for where you stop, there you will remain. But if you say: That is enough for me — you are lost.
From Sermo 169, on Philippians 3 · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“He returneth back, who relapses into the state whence he had once departed” becomes “whoever does not keep on goes backward,” “he goeth out of the way, who apostatizes” becomes “whoever rebels turns aside,” and “where thou hast once pleased thyself, there thou hast stood still” becomes “where you stop, there you will remain,” so self-satisfaction becomes stopping; the two halves change places. †
† An intermediate translation may have made this change.
Original · LatinSemper tibi displiceat quod es, si vis pervenire ad id quod nondum es. Nam ubi tibi placuisti, ibi remansisti. Si autem dixeris: Sufficit; et peristi.
Semper adde, semper ambula, semper profice; noli in via remanere, noli retro redire, noli deviare.
Remanet, qui non proficit; retro redit, qui ad ea revolvitur unde iam abscesserat; deviat, qui apostatat.
Melius it claudus in via, quam cursor praeter viam.
Source text: augustinus.itIn English · R. G. MacMullen, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, vol. II (Library of the Fathers 20), 1845Let what thou art be ever displeasing to thee, if thou wouldest attain to what thou art not yet. For where thou hast once pleased thyself, there thou hast stood still.
But if thou shalt have said, " It is enough;" then art thou lost.
Be ever adding, be ever walking, ever making progress ; stand not still in the way, return not back, go not out of the way.
He standeth still, who doth not advance; he returneth back, who relapses into the state whence he had once departed; he goeth out of the way, who apostatizes.
Source text: archive.orgAnother translation · Many Thoughts of Many MindsBe always displeased with what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not : for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
But if thou sayest I have enough, thou perishest.
Always add, always walk, always proceed, Neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Sermo 169, on Philippians 3, 15.18 (the sermon's close); Oxford translation, Sermon CXIX [CLXIX Ben.].
The close of Augustine's Sermo 169, with its two halves in reverse order: Tolstoy begins with "Semper adde" and its gloss, then gives "Semper tibi displiceat", and leaves out the last sentence, "Melius it claudus in via, quam cursor praeter viam" (the lame man on the road goes better than the runner off it). Within the halves he changes words. "Semper adde, semper ambula, semper profice" (always add, always walk, always advance) becomes «Всегда прибавляй, всегда подвигайся» (always add, always move forward), two verbs made one. In the gloss, "Remanet, qui non proficit" (he stands still who does not advance) is turned round, «Кто стоит, тот не подвигается» (who stands still does not advance); "retro redit, qui ad ea revolvitur unde iam abscesserat" (he goes back who rolls back to what he had already left) becomes «кто не продолжает, тот идет назад» (who does not go on goes back); "deviat, qui apostatat" (he goes out of the way who apostatizes) becomes «кто возмущается, тот сворачивает» (who rebels turns aside). In the second half "si vis pervenire ad id quod nondum es" (if you would reach what you are not yet) becomes «если хочешь достигнуть того, чтобы быть иным, чем ты есть» (if you want to become other than you are), and "Nam ubi tibi placuisti, ibi remansisti" (for where you have pleased yourself, there you have stood still) becomes «потому что на чем ты остановишься, на том ты и останешься» (for where you stop, there you will stay), so self-satisfaction becomes stopping; "Si autem dixeris: Sufficit; et peristi" is kept («Если же ты скажешь: с меня довольно — ты погиб»). What Tolstoy read was not found, so some of these changes may be his source's. Southgate's Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862), one of his anthologies, has the first half and the three commands in Augustine's order and stops at "nor deviate", without the gloss that Tolstoy has, so it was not his only source. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903); the Jubilee name index (vol. 42) lists Augustine once in vol. 41 (p. 591) and names no source.
4. Злой человек вредит самому себе прежде, чем повредит другим.
4. The wicked man harms himself before he harms others.
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Not found in Augustine. The thought is proverbial (cf. Seneca, Ep. 81.22 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'); attribution unverified.
Searched: Southgate's Many Thoughts and Suggestive Thoughts (all 'Augustine' entries; 'injures/hurts/harms himself'); Coit and Tileston (same phrases).
Translation note. The Jubilee text breaks the italics at the comma Russian requires before «чем»; the English sets the line as one.