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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 03</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have heard that a royal prince of short stature and mean presence,<br>whose brothers were tall and good-looking, once saw his father<br>glancing on him with aversion and contempt but he had the shrewdness<br>and penetration to guess the meaning and said: 'O father, a puny<br>intelligent fellow is better than a tall ignorant man, neither is<br>everything bigger in stature higher in price. A sheep is nice to eat<br>and an elephant is carrion.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The smallest mountain on earth is Jur; nevertheless<br> It is great with Allah in dignity and station.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hast thou not heard that a lean scholar<br> One day said to a fat fool:<br> 'Although an Arab horse may be weak<br> It is thus more worth than a stable full of asses.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The father laughed at this sally, the pillars of the state<br>approved of it, but the brothers felt much aggrieved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> While a man says not a word<br> His fault and virtue are concealed.<br> Think not that every desert is empty.<br> Possibly it may contain a sleeping tiger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I heard that on the said occasion the king was menaced by a powerful<br>enemy and that when the two armies were about to encounter each other,<br>the first who entered the battlefield was the little fellow who said:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'I am not he whose back thou wilt see on the day of battle<br> But he whom thou shalt behold in dust and blood.<br> Who himself fights, stakes his own life<br> In battle but he who flees, the blood of his army.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> After uttering these words he rushed among the troops of the<br>enemy, slew several warriors and, returning to his father, made humble<br>obeisance and said:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'O thou, to whom my person appeared contemptible,<br> Didst not believe in the impetuosity of my valour.<br> A horse with slender girth is of use<br> On the day of battle, not a fattened ox.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It is related that the troops of the enemy were numerous, and that<br>the king's, being few, were about to flee, but that the puny youth<br>raised a shout, saying: 'O men, take care not to put on the garments<br>of women.' These words augmented the rage of the troopers so that they<br>made a unanimous attack and I heard that they gained the victory on<br>the said occasion. The king kissed the head and eyes of his son,<br>took him in his arms and daily augmented his affection till he<br>appointed him to succeed him on the throne. His brothers became<br>envious and placed poison in his food but were perceived by his sister<br>from her apartment, whereon she closed the window violently and the<br>youth, shrewdly guessing the significance of the act, restrained his<br>hands from touching the food, and said: 'It is impossible that men<br>of honour should die, and those who possess none should take their<br>place.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No one goes under the shadow of an owl<br> Even if the homa should disappear from the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This state of affairs having been brought to the notice of the<br>father, he severely reproved the brothers and assigned to each of them<br>a different, but pleasant, district as a place of exile till the<br>confusion was quelled and the quarrel appeased; and it has been said<br>that ten dervishes may sleep under the same blanket but that one<br>country cannot hold two padshahs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When a pious man eats half a loaf of bread<br> He bestows the other half upon dervishes.<br> If a padshah were to conquer the seven climates<br> He would still in the same way covet another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</a><div class=q>
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