[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 3.8.4 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 3.8.4 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 3.8.4 - **Language:** English ### [3.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.4) — if such, I say, had been the nature of the philosophy imbibed under your tuition, I should be more indebted to you than Alexander was to Aristotle, and should consider it my duty to bestow a very different reward on you than Aristotle received from that Prince. Answer me, sycophant, ought you not to have instructed me on one point at least so essential to be known by a King; namely, on the reciprocal duties between the sovereign and his subjects? Ought you not also to have foreseen that I might, at some future period, be compelled to contend with my brothers, sword in hand, for the crown, and for my very existence? Such, as you must well know, has been the fate of the children of almost every King of Hindoustan. Did you ever instruct me in the art of war, how to besiege a town, or draw up an army in battle array? Happy for me that I consulted wiser heads than thine on these subjects! Go! withdraw to thy village. Henceforth let no person know either who thou art, or what is become of thee.' - [Previous: 3.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.3) - [Next: 3.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.5) - [Up: 3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.8.4) · Pramāṇa