Indian proverbsИндийские поговорки
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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. Наживи себе то богатство, которого воры не могут похищать, на которое сильные не смеют посягать, которое и по смерти за тобою останется, никогда не убавляясь и не истлевая. Богатство это — твоя душа.
6. Gain for yourself the wealth that thieves cannot steal, that the strong dare not lay hands on, that will remain yours even after death, never growing less and never decaying. That wealth is your soul.
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Tolstoy’s own version · Мысли мудрых людей на каждый деньНаживи себе то богатство, которого воры не могут похищать, на которое тираны не смеют посягать, которое и по смерти за тобою останется, никогда не убавляется и не тлеет.
Source text: tolstoy.ruRelated · The Sacred AnthologyA treasure secure, impregnable, enduring ; the one treasure that will follow man after death.
A treasure that none can take away, …
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The Circle takes the saying from Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 31 October, where it follows Matthew 6:19–21 on treasure in heaven, and changes it in three places: «тираны» (tyrants) becomes «сильные» (the strong), «никогда не убавляется и не тлеет» becomes «никогда не убавляясь и не истлевая», and a sentence is added, «Богатство это — твоя душа» (this wealth is your soul). No source in these words was found. Indian sayings praise a wealth beyond the reach of thieves: Jones's Hitopadesa calls knowledge 'supreme riches; because it can never be lost'; Conway's 'Hid Treasure', from the Buddhist Khuddakapatha, calls charity, piety, and temperance 'the one treasure that will follow man after death' and 'a treasure that none can take away'. Neither names thieves and tyrants together or ends with the soul.
Searched: Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), where it is found (31 October); Conway's Sacred Anthology (1874); Jones's Hitopadesa (Works, 1807), Arnold's and Wilkins's Hitopadesa; Tawney's and Wortham's Bhartrihari; Bühler's Manu (SBE 25); Ganguli's Udyoga Parva; Brown's Vemana; the Kural (1885); Southgate, Tileston, and Coit; a web search in English.
5. Поступай днем так, чтобы ночью твой сон был спокоен, а в молодости так, чтобы старость твоя была спокойна.
5. Act by day so that your sleep at night may be peaceful, and in youth so that your old age may be peaceful.
From Mahābhārata, Udyoga Parva · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
Original · Sanskritदिवसेनैव तत्कुर्याद्येन रात्रौ सुखं वसेत्
पूर्वे वयसि तत्कुर्याद्येन वृद्धः सुखं वसेत्
Source text: sa.wikisource.orgIn English · K. M. Ganguli (publ. P. C. Roy), 1886Do that during the day which may enable thee to pass the night in happiness ; and do that during eight months of the year which may enable thee to pass the season of rains happily. Do that during youth which may ensure a happy old age ; …
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · «Мысли мудрых людей на каждый день»Поступай днем так, чтобы ночью твой сон был спокоен, а в молодости так, чтобы старость твоя была спокойна.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Mahābhārata, Udyoga Parva (Prajāgara Parva, Vidura's counsel to Dhṛtarāṣṭra), 5.35.57-58 (Wikisource numbering); Ganguli, Udyoga Parva sec. XXXV.
Vidura's verses: 'do by day what lets you live happily at night, in eight months what lets you live happily in the rains, in youth what lets you live happily when old, all your life what lets you live happily after death'. Tolstoy keeps the first and third pairs, drops the rainy season and the life hereafter, and makes 'live happily' 'sleep in peace' / 'be at peace'. The same text is in his 1903 anthology; the anthology or calendar he took it from was not identified (the Jubilee commentary traces one other 'Indian saying' of 1903 to the 1902 «Просвещение» calendar).