سندبادنامه 83
English (machine translation) 83
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"You must observe justice if you govern a realm, / and beware of tyranny in it with the utmost caution.
For kingship endures with blatant unbelief, / but does not endure with tyranny in desert or settled land."
And the unseen herald of the movements of day and night said to him: "Whoever, in the office of kingship, becomes occupied with following
diversions and amusements, and through deficiency of justice and loss of intellect desists from using"
forbearing and virtue remains abandoned, is like a husbandman who scatters seed in the earth, and in
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exercising care with the arm and supplying water shows negligence, so that his toil and the peasant's seed are brought to naught,
and by wasting the water of the brook, the water of his face is lost; and the condition of the health of his fortune
succumbs to ruin through the sickness of the indigestion of adversity, and he becomes disappointed, lost, unfortunate, and penniless; and the tongue of
time says to him:
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