Heinrich ZschokkeГенрих Чокке
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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.
6. Никакое горе так не велико, как страх перед ним.
6. No misfortune is as great as the fear of it.
From Stunden der Andacht zur Beförderung wahren Christenthums und häuslicher Gottesverehrung · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
Original · GermanKein Uebel iſt ſo groß, daß nicht die Furcht vor demſelben ein größeres Uebel waͤre, als das Unglück ſelbſt, welches man vor ſich zu ſehen meint.
Source text: archive.orgIn English · Morris Mattson, 1835We have somewhere said, that a fearful anticipation of evil is more to be dreaded than the misfortune itself.
Source text: archive.orgRelated · Stunden der Andacht, «Erste Neujahrsbetrachtung»Fürchte nicht zu viel! Die Furcht vor den Uebeln der Zu⸗ kunft iſt ſelbſt ſchon das größte Uebel.
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · Мысли мудрых людей на каждый деньНикакое горе так не велико, как велик страх перед ним.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Stunden der Andacht zur Beförderung wahren Christenthums und häuslicher Gottesverehrung (1809–1816), «Häusliche Sorge, häusliches Glück», 26th ed. (Aarau: Sauerländer, 1846), vol. I, no. 12, p. 112, the meditation's opening sentence; Mattson's English (Philadelphia, 1835), «Domestic Sorrow and Happiness», p. 71.
Zschokke's sentence, compressed: “no evil is so great that the fear of it would not be a greater evil than the misfortune itself which one thinks one sees before one” (Kein Uebel ist so groß, daß nicht die Furcht vor demselben ein größeres Uebel wäre, als das Unglück selbst). Tolstoy keeps the frame «Никакое … так не велико» (Kein Uebel ist so groß) and the fear of it, and drops the comparison of two evils; “evil” (Uebel) becomes «горе» (grief). It opens the meditation on domestic care in Zschokke's Stunden der Andacht; the same thought stands in the first New Year's meditation (related block), “the fear of the evils of the future is itself already the greatest evil”. The Circle took the line from Tolstoy's Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 15 March, which reads «как велик страх» (as great as the fear); Tolstoy printed it again in «Путь жизни», ch. XXVIII («Зло»), § VI, no. 9. The vol. 40 commentary says thinkers quoted once or twice there came from chance sources, calendars and collections, and does not name the one for Zschokke; so the route from the German to Tolstoy was not found. Mattson's American English of 1835 abridges, as its preface says, and gives the sentence only as a back-reference at the head of the same meditation.