CleobulusКлеобул
1 passageотрывков: 1
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.
6. Твори добро друзьям своим, чтобы они еще более любили тебя; твори его своим врагам, чтобы они сделались когда-нибудь твоими друзьями.
Когда ты говоришь о враге твоем, помни, что может прийти день, когда он станет твоим другом.
6. Do good to your friends, that they may love you still more; do it to your enemies, that they may some day become your friends.
When you speak of your enemy, remember that a day may come when he will become your friend.
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, i. 91 · joined by Tolstoy from several places (more).
In English · R. D. Hicks, 1925Further, that we should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, i. 91 (Cleobulus), D.L. i. 91.
«Клеовуд» = Cleobulus of Lindus, one of the Seven Sages. The first sentence is his saying (D.L. i. 91). The second ('remember your enemy may one day become your friend') is not in D.L.'s Cleobulus; it is the saying attributed to Bias ('love as if you would one day hate') turned around — source not traced. The Greek original was not consulted.
Translation note. Tolstoy’s «Клеовуд» is taken as Cleobulus, one of the Seven Sages.