SolonСолон
2 passagesотрывков: 2
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.
3. Пока живешь — поучайся. Не жди, чтоб старость принесла с собой мудрость.
3. As long as you live, keep learning. Do not wait for old age to bring wisdom with it.
From Moralistes anciens · close to the original (more).
What Tolstoy read · Moralistes anciens, ed. L. Aimé-MartinTant que tu vivras, cherche à t'instruire : ne présume pas que la vieillesse apporte avec elle la raison.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Moralistes anciens (Paris, Lefèvre, 1841), "Sentences des sages de la Grèce", Solon, XVIII.
Tolstoy translates the French of Moralistes anciens, one of the anthologies on his list of sources, closely: "As long as you live, seek to instruct yourself; do not presume that old age brings reason with it." «поучайся» renders "cherche à t'instruire", and «мудрость» (wisdom) stands for "la raison". The Greek the French translator rendered was not identified; it is not among Solon's precepts in Diogenes Laertius I.60. Solon's own line "I grow old ever learning many things" (fragment 18, quoted by Plutarch, Solon 2 and 31) is near it in thought.
5. Ты стонешь от своих несчастий. Если б ты помнил то, что испытывают другие, ты меньше жаловался бы на свои страдания.
5. You groan over your misfortunes. If you remembered what others endure, you would complain less of your own sufferings.
Probably from Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
Not in Leo Tolstoy as EditorThe Jubilee editors signed it Solon; the nearest text is an anecdote in Valerius Maximus, and Tolstoy’s direct source is unknown.
Original · LatinIdem, cum ex amicis quendam grauiter maerentem uideret, in arcem perduxit hortatusque est ut per omnes subiectorum aedificiorum partes oculos circumferret.
'cogita nunc tecum' inquit 'quam multi luctus sub his tectis et olim fuerint et hodieque uersentur …
… insequentibus saeculis sint habitaturi ac mitte mortalium incommoda tamquam propria deflere'.
… quo colligebat non oportere nos quae fortuito patiamur praecipuae et intolerabilis amaritudinis iudicare.
Source text: thelatinlibrary.comIn English · Samuel Speed, 1678The same person, when he beheld one of his Friends in a deep affliction, brought him to a high Tower, and bid him survey every part of the lower Buildings: which when he had done, …
… how many occasions of lamentations formerly there were, and still are in those meaner roofs, and will happen hereafter, and cease to bewail the common inconveniences of …
From whence he collected, that we ought not to accompt those things most intolerably bitter, which we suffer by chance.
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A likely source, not certain. Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, VII.2 ext. 2.
The 1908 and earlier printings carry no signature; the Jubilee editors added 'Солон', on their stated basis of primary sources and Tolstoy's autographs (vol. 42, pp. 582-583, table of corrected signatures: '24 октября, 4 | Подписи нет | Солон'). The nearest ancient text found is Valerius Maximus' Solon, who takes a grieving friend up the citadel to think of all the griefs under the roofs below and bids him stop lamenting mortal ills as his own; Tolstoy's two sentences would be a maxim distilled from that anecdote (or from an anthology that had already distilled it). Unconfirmed: Tolstoy's direct source is unknown.
Searched: Jubilee vol. 42 commentary (ru.wikisource page scans, pp. 582-583), which names no source; web searches for a Solon saying on others' misfortunes in Stobaeus found none; Valerius Maximus VII.2 ext. 2 (Latin Library) and Speed's 1678 English (EEBO-TCP A64912) consulted. Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 106b gives the related 'common heap of misfortunes' to Socrates.