Pliny the YoungerПлиний Младший
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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. Тот истинно благороден, кто легко прощает заблуждения людей и в то же время так боится сделать что-нибудь дурное, как будто он никогда никого не прощал.
6. He is truly noble who readily forgives people’s errors and at the same time is as afraid of doing anything wrong as though he had never forgiven anyone.
From Epistulae · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
What Tolstoy read · Beautiful Thoughts from Latin AuthorsThe highest of characters, in my estimation, is his, who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind, as if he were every day guilty of some himself ; and at the same time as cautious of committing a fault, as if he never forgave one.
Source text: archive.orgOriginal · LatinAtque ego optimum et emendatissimum existimo, qui ceteris ita ignoscit, tamquam ipse cotidie peccet, ita peccatis abstinet tamquam nemini ignoscat.
Source text: thelatinlibrary.comIn English · William Melmoth, revised by W. M. L. Hutchinson (Loeb), 1915To my mind, the best and most faultless character is his, who is as ready to pardon the rest of mankind, as though he daily transgressed himself; and at the same time as cautious to avoid a fault, as if he never forgave one.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Epistulae, VIII.22.2.
Tolstoy translates Melmoth's English as Ramage prints it, shortened: "The highest of characters, in my estimation, is his, who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind, as if he were every day guilty of some himself; and at the same time as cautious of committing a fault, as if he never forgave one." «Заблуждения людей» (the errors of men) is "the moral errors of mankind", and «так боится сделать что-нибудь дурное, как будто он никогда никого не прощал» (is as afraid of doing anything bad as if he had never forgiven anyone) "as cautious of committing a fault, as if he never forgave one". Left out: "as if he were every day guilty of some himself" (tamquam ipse cotidie peccet), half of Pliny's antithesis, so that the reason for pardoning others goes; «легко прощает» (easily forgives) stands for "is as ready to pardon". "The highest of characters" (optimum et emendatissimum, the best and most faultless) becomes «истинно благороден» (truly noble). The Loeb revision of Melmoth (1915) reads "To my mind, the best and most faultless character is his, who is as ready to pardon the rest of mankind, as though he daily transgressed himself".