An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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How did I realize that this is the right translation of
علاج واقعه پیش از وقوع باید کرد
درمان هر واقعه باید مقدم بر وقوع آن باشد.
The remedy of any event should precede it happening.
Tis not enough that rhyme and meter fit, if readers cannot trace the play of wit.
Notes on Stallings’ Bratrachomyomachia
Depictions of a battle with mice and cats adorn ancient Egyptian papyruses from as far back as the 14th century B.C. Loc 43
This ancient story of the frog and the mouse was widely known in the East. (The 13th-century Persian poet Rumi has a charming version of it.) Loc 85
the widely-translated anonymous 9th-century Irish poem “Pangur Ban,” about a scholar and his cat—as the cat pursues the library’s mice, so the scholar pursues difficult questions.Loc 158