Zhonizad RafezskyЖонизад Рафезский
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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.
2. Часто люди гордятся чистотой своей совести только потому, что они обладают короткой памятью.
2. People often pride themselves on the purity of their conscience only because they have a short memory.
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Neither the name nor the saying was traced. The Jubilee name index lists «Жонизад Рафезский — т. 41: 240» with no dates or description, so its editors did not identify him either. No French, German, or English form of the saying ('people are often proud of a clean conscience only because they have a short memory') was found, and no writer whose name «Жонизад Рафезский» could transcribe was found. The thought is not in Tolstoy's Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).
Searched: Jubilee vols. 40 and 42 (name index and commentary); web searches for «Жонизад Рафезский», for the French 'mémoire courte' with 'conscience', and the English 'clear conscience' with 'short memory' or 'bad memory'; Southgate's two anthologies for 'short memory'.
Translation note. The name is given as Tolstoy wrote it, «Жонизад Рафезский»; whom it names is uncertain.