On Quiet

The message is not easy to translate.

It's about noise. It says that noise is not good and that good is not noisy.

I think the best way to get at it is with a word-for-word slavish translation, so that nothing is lost, even though it turns out to be a bit awkward, though not incorrect, English.

"Noise does not good.
Good does not noise."

Le bruit ne fait pas de bien et le bien ne fait pas de bruit !

Saint Vincent de Paul , Maximes spirituelles

Strepitus bonum non facit,
et bonum non strepit.