<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512181" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is related that a sultan thus addressed a miserly beggar who had accumulated great riches: ‘It is evident that thou possessest boundless wealth and we have an affair on hand in which thou canst aid us by way of a loan. When the finances of the country are in a flourishing condition it will be repaid.’ The miser replied: ‘It is not befitting the power and dignity of a padshah to soil the hands of his noble aspirations with the property of an individual like myself who has collected it grain by grain.’ The king replied: ‘It does not matter because the money will be spent upon infidels: The wicked women should be joined to the wicked men.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If the water of a Christian’s well is impure <br> What matters it if thou washest a dead Jew therein? <br> They said: ‘The lime-mortar is not clean.’ <br> We replied: ‘We shall plug therewith the privy holes.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard that he refused to comply with the behest of the king, began to argue and to look insolently; whereon the king ordered the sum in question to be released from his grasp by force and with a reprimand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If an affair cannot be accomplished with gentleness <br> He forsooth turns his head to impudence. <br> Who has no regard for himself <br> It is proper that no one should pay him any.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512181" data-title="Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21 de Sa di" data-description="It is related that a sultan thus addressed a miserly beggar who had accumulated great riches: ‘It is evident that thou possessest boundless wealth and we have an affair on hand in which thou canst aid us by way of a loan. When the finances of th..."></div> </div> </div>

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