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Recently, the number of quotes supposedly from classics has increased many times over, and many reposts have appeared. What is surprising is that few people think about whether the saying really belongs to the author indicated at the end of the text, or whether we see a fact of falsification. I don’t know how this can be explained: inertia (well, we’re used to it, you understand, something that you like to immediately mark with the “I like” button and drag it to your blog) or total illiteracy - I don’t know.

For example, here is a very popular quote: “If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer - they drink and steal.” And signature: M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.

I haven’t read all of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, but in those works that I skimmed through, there is nothing like that. Searching for the original source on the Internet also yielded nothing. Still would! M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin simply could not say anything like that. Yes, he hated the socio-political situation that developed in the middle of the 19th century, but he was a realist, not a pessimist. Even in a nightmare, he could not imagine that in a hundred years in Russia there would be the same hopeless, stupid situation that he saw before his own eyes.

Or the following quote is very often attributed to W. Shakespeare: “You are so eager to judge the sins of others, start with your own and will not reach others.”

Its original source is unknown. F. Rückert has something similar: “Are you so eager to count the sins of people? Start with your own, and you’ll hardly get to those of others.” , but neither the translator nor the original is known here, so I cannot name F. Rückert as the author of the quote attributed to Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Henry VI (Part 2, Act 3, Scene 3) has something similar - "Don't judge him; we are all sinners" . Wed: Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. If we assume that the quote being analyzed is a translation of this line, then we must admit that this is a very free translation. Shakespeare has nothing else like it.

Of course, it is impossible to know the absolute majority of the works of the classics, but, by and large, this is not required. It is enough to understand the poetics of the author, the range of themes of his works in order to be able to accurately correlate a quote with a particular author. Otherwise, you can get into trouble:

He who wants to live must fight, and whoever does not want to resist in this world of eternal struggle does not deserve the right to life. F. Nietzsche.

People tend to make sacrifices only when they can really expect success, and not when the futility of these sacrifices is obvious. F. Schiller.

In fact, both quotes are attributed to Hitler, but in the end, no one cares.

Wisdom from Shakespeare

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.

Love is poor if it can be measured.

You can't achieve more with immorality than with truth. Virtue is courageous and goodness never fears. I will never regret doing a good deed.

Praising what has been lost creates precious memories.

All lovers vow to fulfill more than they can, and do not even fulfill what is possible.

Every obstacle to love only strengthens it.

Where there are few words, they have weight.

Folly and wisdom are caught as easily as contagious diseases. Therefore, choose your comrades.

Stupidity serves as a sharpener for the mind.

The rotten cannot be touched.

To the vile, both kindness and wisdom seem vile; dirt - only dirt to taste.

Grief hits harder if it notices that one is succumbing to it.

A stupid cap doesn't spoil your brain.

If all those with obstinate wives reached despair, then a tenth of humanity would hang themselves.

If it were not for reason, sensuality would overwhelm us. That's what intelligence is for, to curb its absurdities.

If a sharp word left marks, we would all be dirty.

If the sickle of death is inexorable,

Leave descendants to argue with him!

If you have tears, prepare to shed them.

Is there anything more monstrous than an ungrateful person?

Desire is the father of thought.

Living only for yourself is an abuse.

And good arguments must yield to better ones.

Excessive care is the same curse of old people as carelessness is the grief of youth.

Sometimes we find consolation in the loss itself, and sometimes we bitterly mourn the gain itself.

Intrigue is the strength of the weak. Even a fool is always smart enough to do harm.

True love cannot speak, because true love is expressed in deeds rather than in words.

True honesty often lives like a pearl in a dirty oyster shell.

How far the rays of a tiny candle extend! So does a good deed shine in the world. bad weather.

When friendship begins to weaken and cool, she always resorts to increased politeness.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A light heart lives long.

A deceitful face will hide everything that a treacherous heart has in mind.

Love is a beacon raised above the storm,
Not fading in darkness and fog,
Love is the star by which the sailor
Determines a place in the ocean.

Love runs away from those who chase it, and throws itself on the neck of those who run away.

Love is omnipotent: there is no grief on earth - higher than its punishment, no happiness - higher than the pleasure of serving it.

Love gives nobility even to those to whom nature has denied it.

Love and reason rarely live in harmony.

Love is stronger than the fear of death.

People are the masters of their own destiny.

Little people become great when the great ones are transferred.

My honor is my life; both grow from the same root. Take away my honor and my life will end.

Men look like April when they are courting, and December when they are already married.

We pray for mercy, and this prayer should teach us to respect merciful actions.

The hope of joy is a little less than the fulfillment of pleasure.

Our life is one wandering shadow, a pathetic actor who swaggers on stage for an hour, and then disappears without a trace; a tale told by a madman, full of sound and fury and making no sense.

Our personality is a garden, and our will is its gardener.

Our glory is created only by popular opinion.

Do not go to the same extremes in apologies as in insults.

Do not give language to rash thoughts and do not bring any rash thought into execution.

The one who trumpets love to everyone does not love.

Friendship is not cemented by intelligence; it is easily torn apart by stupidity.

Don't grab the wheel when it's rolling down: you'll break your neck in vain. Now, if it goes up, hold on to it: you yourself will be at the top.

Small cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creaking of unoiled wheels.

In nothing do I find such happiness as in a soul that preserves the memory of my good friends.

No vice is so simple that it cannot assume the appearance of virtue from the outside.

You will never find a woman without a ready answer, unless she ends up without a tongue.

Nothing is always equally good, because good things, becoming too full-blooded, will die from their own excess.

Nothing encourages vice more than excessive indulgence.

It is useless to grieve about what is lost and irretrievably lost.

The common fate of all boasters: whether sooner or later, you will certainly end up in trouble.

With one glance you can kill love, with one glance you can resurrect it.

One of the most beautiful consolations that life offers us is that a person cannot sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Power is dangerous when conscience is at odds with it.

Confirmation of the truth is never superfluous, even when all doubt sleeps.

The work we do willingly heals pain.

The robber demands: your wallet - or your life. The doctor takes away both your wallet and your life.

A wise fool is better than a stupid sage.

It is childish to cry from fear of what is inevitable.

Jealous people do not need a reason: they are often jealous for no reason at all, but because they are jealous.

Jealousy is a monster that both conceives and gives birth to itself.

Fish in the sea act like people on earth: the big ones eat the small ones.

The best thing is the word spoken directly and simply.

Self-esteem is never as vile as self-abasement.

Tears are women's weapons.

Words are the wind, and swear words are a draft that is harmful.

Words of love grow numb when separated.

A friend's advice is the best support against enemies.

Doubts are traitors: by making us afraid of trying, they deprive us of the good that we could often acquire.

There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.

Honey is so sweet that it finally turns bitter. Too much flavor kills the taste.

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.

Work that we enjoy heals grief.

If you get carried away by jealous suspicion, you can insult a completely innocent person.

The success of a witty word depends more on the ear of the listener than on the tongue of the speaker.

Good feet will sooner or later stumble; the proud back will bend; the black beard will turn grey; a curly head will go bald; the beautiful face will become covered with wrinkles; the deep gaze will dim; but a good heart is like the sun and the moon; and even more to the sun than to the moon; for it shines with a bright light, never changes, and always follows the right path.

Man is an animal striving to rise to the level of God, and most of our troubles are an inevitable side effect of the efforts aimed at this.

The stronger the passion, the sadder its end.

To appreciate someone's quality, you must have some of that quality in yourself.

To catch happiness, you need to be able to run.

You can find a huge amount of information about famous writers - how
they lived as they created their immortal works. Writing
difficult and quite labor-intensive. When reading an interesting book, the reader usually does not
thinks about the characteristics of the character and lifestyle of the writer who wrote
her. But some facts of his biography or the history of the creation of this or that
books are sometimes very entertaining and even challenging.

George Byron:
“I can’t be a genius all 24 hours, there won’t be time to shave.”
- Suffered from manic-depressive psychosis.
- The great poet Byron was lame, prone to obesity and extremely loving
- during the year in Venice, according to some reports, he made himself happy, lame and
fat, 250 ladies.
- Byron had an amazing personal collection - strands of hair cut off
from the pubes of beloved women.

Charles Dickens:
“Near a burning candle there are always midges and insects hovering around, but is that really the point?
Is it the candle's fault?
- Dickens was fond of hypnosis, or, as they said then, mesmerism.
- One of Dickens’s favorite pastimes was trips to the Paris morgue,
where unidentified bodies were exhibited.
- Charles Dickens always slept with his head to the north. He also sat face down on
north when he wrote his great works.

Oscar Wilde
“I like to talk about nothing - it’s the only thing I know.”
- Oscar Wilde did not take Dickens's writings seriously for any reason
mocked them. In general, contemporary critics of Charles Dickens endlessly
hinted that he would never be included in the list of the best British
writers.
- In 1878 he graduated from Oxford with honors.
- Wilde was a very unique and extravagant person. And even two
spent a year in prison. Oscar was convicted of sodomy.
- Towards the end of his life, Wilde, for some reason, changed his name to
Sebastian Melmoth.

Ernest Hemingway
"Truly brave people don't need to fight a duel, but it's always
what many cowards do to convince themselves of their own courage.”
- Ernest Hemingway was not only an alcoholic and a suicide, which is what everyone is talking about
know. He also had peiraphobia (fear of public speaking), except
Moreover, he never believed the praises of even his most sincere readers and
admirers. I didn’t even believe my friends, and that’s all!
- Hemingway survived five wars, four automobile and two air wars
plane crashes.
- Hemingway often and willingly talked about the fact that the FBI was watching him.
The interlocutors smiled wryly, but in the end it turned out that he was right
- declassified documents confirmed that this was indeed surveillance,
not paranoia.

Lewis Carroll
“Everyone in our world is crazy.”
- In his personal diaries, Carroll constantly repented of some sin. However,
These pages were destroyed by the writer's family so as not to discredit his image.
Some researchers seriously believe that it was Carroll who was
Jack the Ripper, who, as we know, was never found.
- Carroll suffered from swamp fever, cystitis, lumbago, eczema,
furunculosis, arthritis, pleurisy, rheumatism, insomnia and a whole other
a bunch of different diseases. In addition, he has almost continuously - and
I had a very bad headache.
- Carroll himself personally invented the tricycle, a mnemonic system
for remembering names and dates and an electric pen.

Franz Kafka
“They lie least when they lie least, and not when for this
least of all reasons.”
- Worked as a clerk. According to modern ideas, it was a typical office
plankton and loser.
- Franz Kafka was the grandson of a kosher butcher and a strict vegetarian.
- Throughout his life, he managed to publish only a few unnoticed
public stories. Before his death he bequeathed to his executor,
Max Brod, destroy all his manuscripts. But Max Brod did not submit to his will
dying. This is how Franz Kafka became a world famous writer. Posthumously.
- Currently, Kafka is one of the main mascots of Prague.

William Shakespeare
“You are so eager to judge the sins of others, start with your own and not others’
you'll get there."
- William Shakespeare "was born and died on the same day - April 23rd"
-Contemporaries claimed that Shakespeare was fond of poaching -
hunted deer on the property of Sir Thomas Lucy, without any permission.
- A crater on Mercury is named after Shakespeare.
- There have been debates for several hundred years whether he was the true author
works published under his name.

Lev Tolstoy
“Often people are proud of the purity of their conscience only because they have
short memory."
- On his wedding night with Sophia Bers, 34-year-old Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
forced his 18 year old newlywed wife to read those pages in his
diary, which describes in detail the amorous adventures of the writer with different
women, among others - with serf peasant women. Tolstoy wanted
there were no secrets between him and his wife.
- Leo Tolstoy was skeptical about his novels, including War and
to the world." In 1871, he sent Fet a letter: “How happy I am... what to write
I will never write verbose rubbish like “War” again.”
- Leo Tolstoy wore a portrait of a Frenchman instead of a pectoral cross
educator Zh.Zh. Rousseau.

Agatha Christie
“Conversation is invented to stop people from thinking.”
- During the First World War, she worked as a nurse in a military hospital.
Later she worked in a pharmacy, so she is well versed in poisons and has done a lot of murders in
her books were committed precisely with the help of poisons.
- Agatha Christie suffered from dysgraphia, that is, she practically could not write from
hands. All of her famous novels were dictated.
- Brian Aldiss, an acquaintance of Agatha Christie, once spoke about her methods - “she
I wrote the book to the last chapter, then chose the most unlikely
of the suspects and, returning to the beginning, redid some points,
to set him up."

Anton Chekhov
“Each of us has too many screws, wheels and valves for us to
judge each other by first impression or by two or three signs.”
- Chekhov was a big fan of going to a brothel - and, finding himself in
foreign city, first of all I studied it from this side.
- Anton Chekhov was a passionate collector of postage stamps. He collected them
all life.
- Anton Chekhov was friends with the composer Tchaikovsky and even dedicated stories to him
“Gloomy morning.”
- Was retained for the 2nd year in the 3rd grade for lagging behind in literature.
- Chekhov sat down to write, dressed in full dress.

Arthur Conan Doyle
“Nothing is more deceptive than too obvious facts.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, who invented Sherlock Holmes, was an occultist and believed in
the existence of small winged fairies.
- Arthur Conan Doyle described many methods in the stories about Sherlock Holmes
forensic sciences that were still unknown to the police. Among them is the collection of cigarette butts
and cigarette ash, identifying typewriters, looking through a magnifying glass
traces at the scene. Subsequently, the police began to widely
use these and other Holmes methods.
- Arthur Conan Doyle had an extremely strained relationship with Bernard Shaw,
who once described Sherlock Holmes as "a drug addict with no
single pleasant quality."
- On Arthur's tombstone, at the request of the widow, a knight's name is engraved
motto: Steel True, Blade Straight (“True as steel, straight as a blade”).

Wisdom from Shakespeare

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.

Love is poor if it can be measured.

Poor wisdom is often the slave of rich stupidity.

You can't achieve more with immorality than with truth. Virtue is courageous and goodness never fears. I will never regret doing a good deed.

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. Love everyone, trust the chosen ones, do no harm to anyone.

Desperate diseases can be cured and only desperate remedies.

Those who have never known wounds joke about illness.

Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow.

In nature there are grains and dust.

Suffering is the only outcome
To the best of your ability, ignore adversity.

There is no place for jokes in the insensitive mind.

Seeing and feeling is being, thinking, living.

External beauty is even more precious when it covers the inner. A book whose golden clasps close its golden contents gains special respect.

Praising what has been lost creates precious memories.

All lovers vow to fulfill more than they can, and do not even fulfill what is possible.

Every obstacle to love only strengthens it.

Where there are few words, they have weight.

Folly and wisdom are caught as easily as contagious diseases. Therefore, choose your comrades.

Stupidity serves as a sharpener for the mind.

The rotten cannot be touched.

To the vile, both kindness and wisdom seem vile; dirt - only dirt to taste.

Grief hits harder if it notices that one is succumbing to it.

Kindness in a woman, not seductive glances, will win my love.

A stupid cap doesn't spoil your brain.

If all those with obstinate wives reached despair, then a tenth of humanity would hang themselves.

If it were not for reason, sensuality would overwhelm us. That's what intelligence is for, to curb its absurdities.

If a sharp word left marks, we would all be dirty.

If the sickle of death is inexorable,

Leave descendants to argue with him!

If you have tears, prepare to shed them.

Is there anything more monstrous than an ungrateful person?

Desire is the father of thought.

Living only for yourself is an abuse.

Arrogance is fragile material:

It shrinks like washed fabric.

The fiercest beast is not a stranger to pity. I'm alien, so that means I'm not a beast.

Health is more valuable than gold.

And good arguments must yield to better ones.

Of all the low feelings, fear is the lowest.

Excessive care is the same curse of old people as carelessness is the grief of youth.

Excessive haste, just like slowness, leads to a sad end.

Sometimes we find consolation in the loss itself, and sometimes we bitterly mourn the gain itself.

Intrigue is the strength of the weak. Even a fool is always smart enough to do harm.

Truth loves to act openly.

True love cannot speak, because true love is expressed in deeds rather than in words.

True honesty often lives like a pearl in a dirty oyster shell.

How far the rays of a tiny candle extend! So does a good deed shine in the world. bad weather.

When friendship begins to weaken and cool, she always resorts to increased politeness.

Whoever lacks a decisive will lacks intelligence.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

He who loves to be flattered is worth a flatterer.

He who shines will see better.

A liar knows how to hide behind affection.

A light heart lives long.

A deceitful face will hide everything that a treacherous heart has in mind.

Love is a beacon raised above the storm,
Not fading in darkness and fog,
Love is the star by which the sailor
Determines a place in the ocean.

Love runs away from those who chase it, and throws itself on the neck of those who run away.

Love is omnipotent: there is no grief on earth - higher than its punishment, no happiness - higher than the pleasure of serving it.

Love gives nobility even to those to whom nature has denied it.

Love and reason rarely live in harmony.

Love is stronger than the fear of death.

People are the masters of their own destiny.

Little people become great when the great ones are transferred.

My honor is my life; both grow from the same root. Take away my honor and my life will end.

Men look like April when they are courting, and December when they are already married.

We pray for mercy, and this prayer should teach us to respect merciful actions.

The hope of joy is a little less than the fulfillment of pleasure.

Our life is one wandering shadow, a pathetic actor who swaggers on stage for an hour, and then disappears without a trace; a tale told by a madman, full of sound and fury and making no sense.

Our personality is a garden, and our will is its gardener.

Our glory is created only by popular opinion.

Do not go to the same extremes in apologies as in insults.

Do not give language to rash thoughts and do not bring any rash thought into execution.

The one who trumpets love to everyone does not love.

Friendship is not cemented by intelligence; it is easily torn apart by stupidity.

Don't grab the wheel when it's rolling down: you'll break your neck in vain. Now, if it goes up, hold on to it: you yourself will be at the top.

Small cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creaking of unoiled wheels.

In nothing do I find such happiness as in a soul that preserves the memory of my good friends.

No vice is so simple that it cannot assume the appearance of virtue from the outside.

You will never find a woman without a ready answer, unless she ends up without a tongue.

Nothing is always equally good, because good things, becoming too full-blooded, will die from their own excess.

Nothing encourages vice more than excessive indulgence.

It is useless to grieve about what is lost and irretrievably lost.

The common fate of all boasters: whether sooner or later, you will certainly end up in trouble.

With one glance you can kill love, with one glance you can resurrect it.

One of the most beautiful consolations that life offers us is that a person cannot sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Power is dangerous when conscience is at odds with it.

Confirmation of the truth is never superfluous, even when all doubt sleeps.

The work we do willingly heals pain.

The robber demands: your wallet - or your life. The doctor takes away both your wallet and your life.

A wise fool is better than a stupid sage.

It is childish to cry from fear of what is inevitable.

Jealous people do not need a reason: they are often jealous for no reason at all, but because they are jealous.

Jealousy is a monster that both conceives and gives birth to itself.

Fish in the sea act like people on earth: the big ones eat the small ones.

The best thing is the word spoken directly and simply.

Self-esteem is never as vile as self-abasement.

Tears are women's weapons.

Words are the wind, and swear words are a draft that is harmful.

Words of love grow numb when separated.

A friend's advice is the best support against enemies.

Doubts are traitors: by making us afraid of trying, they deprive us of the good that we could often acquire.

Sleep is nature's balm.

Fear is a constant companion of untruth.

Happy is the one who, hearing blasphemy against himself, can use it to correct himself.

There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.

Honey is so sweet that it finally turns bitter. Too much flavor kills the taste.

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.

Work that we enjoy heals grief.

It is difficult to intimidate a heart that has not been stained by anything.

If you get carried away by jealous suspicion, you can insult a completely innocent person.

The success of a witty word depends more on the ear of the listener than on the tongue of the speaker.

Good feet will sooner or later stumble; the proud back will bend; the black beard will turn grey; a curly head will go bald; the beautiful face will become covered with wrinkles; the deep gaze will dim; but a good heart is like the sun and the moon; and even more to the sun than to the moon; for it shines with a bright light, never changes, and always follows the right path.

If you want to achieve the goal of your aspiration, ask more politely about the road you have lost your way.

Man is an animal striving to rise to the level of God, and most of our troubles are an inevitable side effect of the efforts aimed at this.

The stronger the passion, the sadder its end.

A girl’s honor is all her wealth, it is more valuable than any inheritance.

What is a person like when he is busy only sleeping and eating? An animal, nothing more.

To appreciate someone's quality, you must have some of that quality in yourself.

To catch happiness, you need to be able to run.