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Seite 108 - From this trifle what injury can ensue ? ' He replied, ' Oppression was brought into the world from small beginnings, which every newcomer has increased, until it has reached the present degree of enormity. If the monarch were to eat a single apple from the garden of a peasant, the servants would pull up the tree by the roots ; and if the Sultan orders five eggs to be taken by force, his soldiers will spit a thousand fowls. The iniquitous tyrant remaineth not, but the curses of mankind rest on him...
Seite 104 - A king was sitting in a vessel with a Persian slave. The boy having never before seen the sea, nor experienced the inconvenience of a ship, began to cry and lament, and his whole body was in a tremor. Notwithstanding all the soothings that were offered, he would not be pacified. The king was much annoyed, but no remedy could be found. A philosopher, who was in the ship, said, "If you will command me, I will silence him.
Seite 122 - They asked Hatim Tai if he had ever seen or heard of any person in the world more noble-minded than himself. He replied, ' One day, after having sacrificed forty camels, I went along with...
Seite 158 - Gulistan, or Flower-Garden," was completed through the assistance and grace of God. Throughout the whole of this work I have not followed the custom of writers by inserting verses of poetry borrowed from former authors : — " It is more decorous to wear our own patched and old cloak than to ask in loan another man's garment.
Seite 144 - Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence, and if he knew this he would no longer be ignorant. — When unadorned with the grace of eloquence it is wise to keep watch over the tongue in the mouth. The tongue, by abuse, renders a man contemptible; levity in a nut is a sign of its being empty. A fool was undertaking the instruction of an ass...
Seite 108 - TALE XXXIV. ONE of the sons of Haroon ur Rusheed went to his father in a rage, complaining that the son of a certain officer had spoken disrespectfully of his mother. Haroon asked his ministers what was the just punishment for such an offence. One was for having him put to death ; another said that his tongue ought to be cut out; and another, that he should be fined and banished. Haroon said, " My son, charity requires that you...
Seite 142 - A blockhead is pleased with praise ; like a corpse, whose inflated heel has the appearance of plumpness. Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who in return for his little stock expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, he imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
Seite 126 - God forbid that he should perish in that distress," he was answering from the midst of that overwhelming vortex: "Leave me, and take the hand of my beloved!" The whole world admired him for this speech which, as he was expiring, he was heard to make. Learn not the tale of love from that faithless wretch who can neglect his beloved when exposed to danger.
Seite 138 - Give not your heart to her who has a thousand lovers ; but if you should bestow it on her, be prepared for a separation. No. X. REVEAL not to a friend every secret that you .' possess, for how can you tell but what he may some time or other become your enemy ? Likewise inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. The matter which you wish to preserve as a secret, impart it not to any one, although he may be worthy of confidence ; for no one will be...
Seite 36 - By the wazirs, and the secretaries, and the scribes, I gave order and regularity to my public councils ; I made them the keepers of the mirror of my government, in which they showed unto me the affairs of my empire and the concerns of my armies and my people ; and they kept rich my treasury ; and they secured plenty and prosperity to my soldiers and to my subjects ; and by proper and skilful measures they repaired the disorders incident to empire ; and they kept in order the revenues and the expenses...