Wilhelm von HumboldtВильгельм фон Гумбольдт
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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. Несомненно важнее, как принимает человек судьбу, нежели какова она на самом деле.
6. How a man accepts his fate is undoubtedly more important than what it really is.
From Briefe an eine Freundin · close to the original (more).
Original · German… und gewiß ist es fast noch wichtiger, wie der Mensch das Schicksal nimmt, als wie sein Schicksal ist.
Source text: gutenberg.orgIn English · Catherine M. A. Couper, 1849… and certainly it is far more important how we accept our fortune, than what that fortune really may be.
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · Путь жизниНесомненно важнее, как принимает человек судьбу, нежели какова она на самом деле.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Briefe an eine Freundin (1847), letter from Burgörner, 6 September 1825, Briefe an eine Freundin, ed. Huhnhäuser (Berlin, 1921), letter of 6 September 1825; Couper (1849), vol. I, Letter XLIX, p. 195.
A clause from Wilhelm von Humboldt's letter to Charlotte Diede, closely: “and certainly it is almost more important how a man takes his fate than what his fate is.” Tolstoy drops “almost” (fast noch wichtiger), so «Несомненно важнее» (undoubtedly more important) makes Humboldt's qualified claim unqualified. Humboldt goes on to the proverb that each man makes his own fate. The Jubilee name index identifies «Гумбольдт» as Friedrich Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), the philologist and Prussian statesman. Tolstoy reprinted it in «Путь жизни» (the tolstoy block).