Media Kashigar (1956–2017) Iranian translator, writer and poet
Source: The best critic of a translation is its second translation, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, 2013 https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/3001
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Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st.
Trinummus, Act I, scene 2, lines 25
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Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.
Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 111; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Alternate translation : This is not the best thing possible, nor what I consider proper ; but it is better than the worst. (translator A. H. Evans)
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