Storia do Mogor 81.4

81.4

Rajah Karan complied, but more as if he were going for a stroll than on a warlike expedition, for he only marched at night, and never farther than a league [16], or thereabouts. Aurangzeb knew all, but thought fitting to conceal it, that others might not have occasion to rebel against him, for the reason that in the early part of his reign they saw he did not uphold the privileges of anyone. Thus do intelligent princes act at times with dissimulation, and content themselves with little, in order to make a future haul of much greater value. He who at the commencement of his authority shows himself timid in dealing with the great, sees reason afterwards to repent of his timidity when it is too late. This was the procedure by which Aurangzeb strengthened himself in his kingdom, displaying harshness, where he dared, as an example to others, and leaving alone the resolute who could injure his plans, as can be seen in the following case, although it appeared to be a dishonour to him.