'Enough unpleasant truths; Gentlemen, to sum up: the man with whom it was a question of amputating his gangrened leg would be ill-advised to say to his surgeon: this diseased leg is quite sound.
Trêve de vérités désagréables, résumons-nous, Messieurs : l’homme à qui il est question de couper une jambe gangrenée serait mal venu de dire à son chirurgien : cette jambe malade est fort saine.