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Условие мудрости — нравственная чистота; последствие ее — душевный мир.
The condition of wisdom is moral purity; its consequence is peace of soul.
1. Хороший человек заботится больше о том, чтобы делать то, что должно, чем о том, что с ним случается. Делать то, что должно — мое дело, говорит такой человек, то, что случается — дело божье. И, что бы ни случилось, ничто не может помешать мне делать то, что я должен.
1. Good people care more about doing what ought to be done than about what happens to them. To do what ought to be done is my business, they say; what happens is God’s business. And whatever happens, nothing can keep me from doing what I ought.
2. Человек, который поставит себе за правило делать то, что ему хочется, недолго будет хотеть делать то, что делает.
2. Those who make it a rule to do what they want will not long want to do what they do.
3. Когда мы чувствуем себя всего слабее телом, мы можем быть всего сильнее духом.
3. When we are at our weakest physically, we may be at our strongest spiritually.
From The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal Republic · close to the original .
Tolstoy’s version, in EnglishWhen we feel weakest in body, we can be strongest in spirit.
Lucy Mallory’s own wordsExtremes meet. When we are at our weakest physically, we may be at our strongest spiritually.
Source text: iapsop.comTolstoy’s own version · Путь жизниКогда мы чувствуем себя всего слабее телом, мы можем быть всего сильнее духом.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal Republic (Lucy A. Mallory's journal, Portland, Oregon), vol. XIV, no. 11, December 1901, p. 164, 'Key Thoughts', the editor's unsigned aphorisms.
Close. Tolstoy drops 'Extremes meet.' and says 'when we feel ourselves weakest in body', where Mallory has 'when we are at our weakest physically'. The aphorism is unsigned, among the editor's 'Key Thoughts'. Tolstoy reprinted it word for word in The Path of Life. Mallory's sentence is printed here, without 'Extremes meet.'.
Translation note. Tolstoy kept the author’s words closely, so the author’s own English is printed here (ruling 1); Tolstoy’s Russian, translated, is in the source panel.
4. Самым лучшим доказательством мудрости является непрерывно хорошее расположение духа.
4. The very best proof of wisdom is unbroken good humor.
From Essais, livre I, ch. 26, De l'institution des enfans · close to the original .
Original · FrenchLa plus expresse marque de la sagesse, c’est une esjouïssance constante : son estat est comme des choses au dessus de la Lune : tousjours serein.
Source text: fr.wikisource.orgIn English · Charles Cotton, rev. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
Source text: gutenberg.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Essais, livre I, ch. 26, De l'institution des enfans, I.26 (Cotton's I.25), the passage on the cheerfulness of philosophy; text of the Bordeaux copy (the 1588 edition with Montaigne’s later additions).
The first clause of Montaigne's sentence, translated closely: 'la plus expresse marque' becomes «самым лучшим доказательством», 'une esjouïssance constante' (a constant rejoicing) «непрерывно хорошее расположение духа». The image of the regions above the moon is left out. The Jubilee list names an anthology, «Pensées de Montaigne» (Geneva, 1880), which was not seen.
5. Делай только то, что духовно поднимает тебя, и будь уверен, что этим самым ты более всего можешь быть полезен обществу.
5. Do only what raises you up spiritually, and be sure that by doing just this you can be most useful to society.
6. Когда что-либо тебя огорчает и мучает, подумай: 1) как много еще более неприятного могло бы с тобою случиться и случается с другими людьми; 2) вспомни, как в прежнее время огорчали и точно так же, как теперь, мучили тебя события или обстоятельства, о которых теперь ты вспоминаешь спокойно и совершенно равнодушно и 3) главное, — подумай о том, что то, что огорчает и мучит тебя, есть только испытание, на котором ты можешь проявить свою духовную силу и укрепить ее.
6. When something grieves and torments you, consider: 1) how many still more unpleasant things could happen to you, and do happen to other people; 2) remember how in times past you were grieved, and tormented just as you are now, by events or circumstances that you now recall calmly and with complete indifference; and 3), above all, consider that what grieves and torments you is only a trial in which you can show your spiritual strength and make it stronger.
7. Души людей бывают временами в состоянии наибольшего совершенства, временами же в состоянии наибольшей развращенности. Дорожи хорошими часами, удерживай их и прогоняй от себя дурные, и тогда всё чаще и чаще будешь жить хорошими часами и реже и реже дурными.
7. The souls of men are at times in a state of the greatest perfection, and at times in a state of the greatest depravity. Treasure the good hours, hold on to them, and drive the bad ones away from you, and then you will live more and more often in good hours, and less and less often in bad ones.
From The Advancement of Learning · reworded by Tolstoy .
What changedBacon’s account of a “culture of the mind” becomes a precept, as Coit’s anthology already has it; “more perfect” and “more depraved” become “the greatest perfection” and “the greatest depravity,” and Tolstoy adds a promise: “then you will live more and more often in good hours.”
What Tolstoy read · Stanton Coit, The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical ScripturesThe minds of all men are at some times …
… in other times in a state more depraved, …
Fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, obliterate and take forth the evil.
Source text: archive.orgAfter Bacon’s own wordsBut there is a kind of culture of the mind that seemeth yet more accurate and elaborate than the rest, and is built upon this ground; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect, and at other times in a state more depraved. The purpose, therefore, of this practice is to fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, and to obliterate and take forth the evil.
Source text: gutenberg.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, Book II, ch. XXII, § 14, on the culture of the mind.
Changed into a precept with a promise. Bacon describes a 'culture of the mind' built on the ground that 'the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect, and at other times in a state more depraved', whose purpose is 'to fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, and to obliterate and take forth the evil'. Coit's The Message of Man, in Tolstoy's list of sources, already drops the frame and gives the second half as a command: 'Fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, obliterate and take forth the evil' (its first clause reads 'in a state more nearly perfect'; the scan's OCR garbles 'in a state', which a marginal heading, 'Fix the best in thee', interrupts). Tolstoy follows Coit: 'more perfect' and 'more depraved' become 'the greatest perfection' and 'the greatest depravity' (наибольшего совершенства, наибольшей развращенности), 'fix and cherish' becomes 'treasure them, hold them', 'obliterate and take forth' becomes 'drive away from yourself', and he adds a close of his own: 'and then you will live more and more often in good hours, and less and less often in bad.' «По Бэкону» marks the retelling. No printable.
8. Мудрым может быть только тот, кто не считает себя мудрым. А не считает себя мудрым только тот, кто всегда видит перед собой совершенство бога.
8. Only those who do not consider themselves wise can be wise. And only those who always see the perfection of God before them do not consider themselves wise.
9. Очень богат тот, кому нечего терять.
9. Very rich is he who has nothing to lose.
Source not found yet .
Not found yet.
No source found. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903). The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names two Russian anthologies that could hold it, T. Tolstaya's «Восточная мудрость» (Posrednik, 1903) and M. L. Binshtok's «Книга мудрости» (1904); neither was available.
Searched: Conway's Sacred Anthology (Chinese entries; 'lose', 'rich'), Southgate's Many Thoughts of Many Minds, Thoughts of Wise Men (1903, Jubilee vol. 40), the Jubilee commentary (vol. 42), all saved source texts ('nothing to lose'), and archive.org full text ('has nothing to lose' with 'Chinese proverb'; German and French forms).
Мудрость бесконечна, — чем дальше подвигаешься к ней, тем она становится нужнее.
Человек всегда может делаться лучше.
Wisdom is infinite — the farther you advance toward it, the more needful it becomes.
We can always become better.
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