Michel de MontaigneМишель Монтень
3 passagesотрывков: 3
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.
7. Самые выдающиеся дарования губятся праздностью.
7. The most outstanding gifts are ruined by idleness.
Probably from Essais, livre I, ch. 8, De l’oisiveté · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
Original · FrenchCOmme nous voyons des terres oysives, si elles sont grasses et fertilles, foisonner en cent mille sortes d’herbes sauvages et inutiles, …
Source text: fr.wikisource.orgIn English · Charles Cotton, rev. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877As we see some grounds that have long lain idle and untilled, when grown rich and fertile by rest, to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs that are unprofitable, …
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A likely source, not certain. Essais, livre I, ch. 8, De l’oisiveté, I.8, opening.
Probably a one-line summary of the chapter’s opening: rich land left idle runs to weeds, and so do minds left unoccupied. No sentence matching «Самые выдающиеся дарования губятся праздностью» was found; it may come from an anthology (the Jubilee list names «Pensées de Montaigne», Geneva 1880, not seen).
4. Самым лучшим доказательством мудрости является непрерывно хорошее расположение духа.
4. The very best proof of wisdom is unbroken good humor.
From Essais, livre I, ch. 26, De l'institution des enfans · close to the original (more).
Original · FrenchLa plus expresse marque de la sagesse, c’est une esjouïssance constante : son estat est comme des choses au dessus de la Lune : tousjours serein.
Source text: fr.wikisource.orgIn English · Charles Cotton, rev. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Essais, livre I, ch. 26, De l'institution des enfans, I.26 (Cotton's I.25), the passage on the cheerfulness of philosophy; text of the Bordeaux copy (the 1588 edition with Montaigne’s later additions).
The first clause of Montaigne's sentence, translated closely: 'la plus expresse marque' becomes «самым лучшим доказательством», 'une esjouïssance constante' (a constant rejoicing) «непрерывно хорошее расположение духа». The image of the regions above the moon is left out. The Jubilee list names an anthology, «Pensées de Montaigne» (Geneva, 1880), which was not seen.
1. Я всегда удивляюсь тому, как могут короли так легко верить тому, что в них всё, и народ — верить про себя, что он ничто.
1. I never cease to wonder how kings can so easily believe that they are everything, and the people believe that they are nothing.
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No sentence about kings believing they are everything and the people that it is nothing was found in Montaigne or in La Boétie's Discours de la servitude volontaire. The idea (a people's self-abasement before its ruler) is La Boétie's theme, which Tolstoy read with the Essais in 1884, but nothing in the Discours matches. The Jubilee edition keeps "Монтэнь" (its list of corrected attributions does not touch this entry); Tolstoy's sources included an anthology, Pensées de Montaigne (Genève, 1880), not found online.
Searched: Montaigne, Essais, French (Gutenberg self-édition, old spelling plus modern French, #48529, #49168, #58801, #58706) and Cotton's English (Gutenberg #3600), sentence-level searches for kings/princes with people and tout/rien, s'étonner/s'émerveiller, croire/estimer; La Boétie, Discours de la servitude volontaire (Gutenberg #62051) for rien/tout and expressions of wonder; Montesquieu, Lettres persanes and Esprit des lois Books I–V (Gutenberg #30268, #33856, #27573: only an editor's paraphrase "le prince y est tout... un peuple qui n'est rien" in Janet's introduction); web searches for the Russian and likely French wordings; vol. 42 commentary and source list.