The Book of Akbar 328.3.3
The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 328.3.3
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328.3.3
I, who am, night and day, a devotee of this gate of Fortune, do not call to remembrance that either when he has cast a gleam of favour upon anyone, or in familiar conversation, he has ever uttered a syllable which savoured of arrogance, or that in his down-sitting or uprising, in his speech or in his audition in the company of his grandees, he has exhibited any change of demeanour. Far-seeing sages well know how impossible it is to gauge the capacity of one who uses so many man-o’erthrowing wines, and yet daily increases in wisdom. But he who is linked to fortune and is wakeful-hearted, knows this much that the Divine Providence must be the Watchman over him, and that such great victories (over passions) come easily to him, and that such great gifts and noble deeds and wondrous works rarely appear in this world. (rūzgārān).