Johann Kaspar LavaterИоганн Каспар Лафатер
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. Хочешь быть умным, научись разумно спрашивать, внимательно слушать, спокойно отвечать и переставать говорить, когда нечего больше сказать.
6. If you want to be intelligent, learn to ask reasonably, to listen attentively, to answer calmly, and to stop talking when there is nothing more to say.
From Aphorisms on Man · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedLavater’s description of a man with “some of the best requisites of man” becomes advice, “if you want to be intelligent, learn to”; asking comes before listening, and “calmly speaks” is dropped.
Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many MindsHe who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.
Source text: gutenberg.orgAnother translation · Aphorisms on Man, tr. Henry FuseliWho feduloufly attends, pointedly alks, calmly fpeaks, coolly anfwers, and ceafes when he has …
… no more to fay, is in poffeffion of fome of the belt requifites of man.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Aphorisms on Man (London, 1788, translated by Henry Fuseli from Lavater's German manuscript, Vermischte unphysiognomische Regeln zur Selbst- und Menschenkenntniß), Aphorisms on Man (1788), no. 125; Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds, under conversation.
Lavater wrote in German; the aphorism was first printed in Fuseli's English (1788), and Louis Klopsch's anthology Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) reprints it; Henry Southgate's anthology of that title (1862), which the Jubilee list names among Tolstoy's sources, does not have it, so where Tolstoy read it is not established. The German text was not found (the Halle copy of the 1787 Regeln is behind a bot check). Changed: Lavater describes the man who "sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say" as possessing "some of the best requisites of man"; Tolstoy makes it advice, «Хочешь быть умным, научись» (if you want to be wise, learn to), puts asking before listening, drops "calmly speaks", and renders "pointedly asks" as «разумно спрашивать» (ask reasonably).
Translation note. «Умный» is “intelligent”, kept apart from «мудрые», “the wise”, in Lao-Tzu’s lines the same day.