Is there a French equivalent of
"Give me a fish and I’ll eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I’ll eat for a lifetime."
?
I've seen one-to-one renderings but I'm wondering if it exists a French idiomatic expression or proverb.
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Sign up to join this communityA very common translation of this quote attributed to Maimonides is this:
Donne un poisson à un homme, il mangera un jour. Apprends-lui à pêcher, il mangera toute sa vie
Sources: https://citations.ouest-france.fr/citation-maimonide/donne-poisson-homme-mangera-jour-103184.html https://www.quotez.net/french/maimonide.htm
Are found in Linguee nothing more than variants on the theme of literal translation. reverso does not provide anything better. It seems that there is nothing else. As a literal translation I'd use this.
Comme il n'existe aucune forme établie, une nouvelle forme, en termes plus modernes, ne semble pas de trop et je propose donc celle-ci.