MontesquieuМонтескье
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.
4. Надобно бы было включить вечную праздность в муки ада, а ее-то, напротив, поместили среди радостей рая.
4. Eternal idleness ought to have been counted among the torments of hell, but instead it has been placed among the joys of paradise.
From Pensées diverses · close to the original (more).
Original · FrenchOn auroit dû mettre l'oisiveté continuelle parmi les peines de l'enfer ; il me semble au contraire qu'on l'a mise parmi les joies du paradis.
Source text: fr.wikisource.orgTolstoy’s own version · Избранные мысли Лабрюйера, с прибавлением избранных афоризмов и максим Ларошфуко, Вовена…Следовало бы непрерывную праздность поместить среди мучений ада, а ее поместили в число блаженств рая.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Pensées diverses, Œuvres complètes, ed. Laboulaye, t. VII (Paris, Garnier, 1879), in the section «Variétés».
Close; Montesquieu's 'il me semble' (it seems to me) is dropped. In 1907 Tolstoy chose the same thought for the Montesquieu he added to Rusanov's book, in a second translation («непрерывную праздность … среди мучений ада»). In his preface to that book (1907) Tolstoy says he found Montesquieu's selected thoughts in the same small volume that held La Rochefoucauld and Vauvenargues; the volume is not named. The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Les moralistes', ed. Alfred Bougard (Brussels, 1858), not seen.
Translation note. The Russian italic is broken only at the commas around «напротив», “on the contrary”; it is set here as one span.
5. Я люблю мужиков: они недостаточно учены, чтобы рассуждать превратно.
5. I love peasants: they are not learned enough to reason perversely.
From Pensées diverses · close to the original (more).
Original · FrenchJ’aime les paysans ; ils ne sont pas assez savants pour raisonner de travers.
Source text: fr.wikisource.orgTolstoy’s own version · Избранные мысли Лабрюйера, с прибавлением избранных афоризмов и максим Ларошфуко, Вовена…Я люблю мужиков: они недостаточно учены, чтобы рассуждать превратно.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Pensées diverses, Œuvres complètes, ed. Laboulaye, t. VII (Paris, Garnier, 1879), in the section «Variétés».
Word for word; 'les paysans' are «мужики», Russia's peasants. The Circle's printed editions signed it «Монтэнь» (Montaigne); the Jubilee editors corrected the signature to «Монтескье», and the thought stands a few lines before that of 4-28.4 in Montesquieu's Pensées diverses. The Circle's Russian is the same, word for word, as no. 11 of the Montesquieu Tolstoy added to Rusanov's book in 1907. No public-domain English was saved.
1. Надо много учиться, чтобы сознать, что знаешь мало.
1. One must study a great deal to become aware that one knows little.
From Pensées diverses · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedMontesquieu’s “pour savoir peu,” to know a little, becomes “to become aware that one knows little”: a remark on how little long study yields becomes the realization of one’s own ignorance.
Tolstoy’s own version · На каждый деньНадо много учиться, чтобы сознать, что знаешь мало. Монтескье.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Pensées diverses, Œuvres complètes, ed. Laboulaye, t. VII (Paris: Garnier, 1879), «Variétés»; the line directly before the thought of 5-27.5.
Montesquieu's line, its sense turned. 'Il faut avoir beaucoup étudié pour savoir peu' (one must have studied much to know a little) becomes «чтобы сознать, что знаешь мало» (to realize that one knows little): Montesquieu's remark on how little long study yields becomes the realization of one's own ignorance. The signature is a slip of the name. The line stands in Montesquieu's Pensées diverses directly before 'J'aime les paysans', which the Circle's printed editions also signed «Монтэнь» (27 May, 5-27.5) and the Jubilee editors corrected to «Монтескье»; here they left the signature. Tolstoy himself wrote «Монтень» for Montesquieu in a note of 1907 (vol. 40 commentary: «Монтень [описка; нужно — Монтескье]»), and in На каждый день (19 April, no. 9) he printed the Circle's wording under «Монтескье» (tolstoy). For the Montesquieu he added to Rusanov's La Bruyère in 1907 he translated the same line closer to the French: «Надо много учиться, чтобы знать хоть немного» (to know at least a little; vol. 40, «Избранные мысли Монтескье», no. 10). Cotton's English Montaigne was searched for the thought without result. No public-domain English of Montesquieu's line was found.