سندبادنامه 113

113.1

"And a woman asked: 'Why have sorrows beset you, / while your command is obeyed among nations?'"
"I said: 'Leave me to my anguish, / for sorrows are in proportion to ambitions.'"
Indeed, gladness of heart is the Phoenix of the West, the red sulfur, and the yellow emerald. To everyone,
according to the measure of his ambition and fitting for his condition, belongs an anxiety and a bewilderment: