حکایت شمارهٔ 6

Poet: Saadi

English translation: Rehatsek
سَحْبانِ وائِل را در فصاحت بی‌نظیر نهاده‌اند، به حکمِ آن که بر سرِ جمع، سالی سخن گفتی؛ لفظی مکرّر نکردی وگر همان اتفاق افتادی به عبارتی دیگر بگفتی. وز جملهٔ آدابِ نُدَماءِ ملوک یکی این است:
سخن گرچه دلبند و شیرین بود
سزاوارِ تصدیق و تحسین بود
چو یک بار گفتی، مگو باز پس
که حلوا چو یک بار خوردند، بس

Subhan Vail is considered to have had no equal in rhetorics because he had addressed an assembly during a year and had not repeated the same word but, when the same meaning happened to occur, he expressed it in another manner and this is one of the accomplishments of courtiers and princes.

A word if heart-binding and sweet Is worthy of belief and of approbation. When thou hast once said it do not utter it again Because sweets, once partaken of, suffice.

Zameen

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Persian text source: Ganjoor

Audio source: Ganjoor