Apprenez que tout flatteur
Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :
Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.

<i>Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.
The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?</i>

Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l’écoute.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

"If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade

That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds
that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: "I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't
got a chance." Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity.
But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: "What lesson can I learn from
this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a
lemonade?

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

L'adversité sans doute est un grand maître, mais il fait payer cher ses leçons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté.

Wer seine Schüler das Abc gelehrt, hat eine größere Tat vollbracht als der Feldherr, der eine Schlacht geschlagen.

Je me souvenais du renard. On risque de pleurer un peu si l'on s'est laissé apprivoiser...

"ويحكى "أن أباه كان فقيراً صالحاً لا يأكل إلا من كسب يده في عمل غزل الصوف. ويطوف على المتفقهة ويجالسهم ويتوفر على خدمتهم ويجدّ في الإحسان إليهم والنفقة بما يمكنه وأنه كان إذا سمع كلامهم بكى وتضرع وسأل الله أن يرزقه ابناً ويجعله فقيهاً ويحضر مجالس الوعظ، فإذا طاب وقته بكى وسأل الله أن يرزقه ابناً واعظاً. فاستجاب الله دعوتيه-
مقدمة

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

"De guiche.
"Portez-les-lui."

Cyrano, tenté et un peu charmé.
"Vraiment…"

De guiche.
"Il est des plus experts.
Il vous corrigera seulement quelques vers…"

Cyrano, dont le visage s’est immédiatement rembruni.
"Impossible, Monsieur ; mon sang se coagule
En pensant qu’on y peut changer une virgule."

De guiche.
"Mais quand un vers lui plaît, en revanche, mon cher,
Il le paye très cher."

Cyrano.
"Il le paye moins cher
Que moi, lorsque j’ai fait un vers, et que je l’aime,
Je me le paye, en me le chantant à moi-même !"

De guiche.
"Vous êtes fier."

Cyrano.
"Vraiment, vous l’avez remarqué ?

"He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

It is a good lesson — though it may often be a hard one — for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all that he aims at.

High in moral virtue was his speech, and gladly would he learn and gladly teach.