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Story 38 - The Manners of Kings - gulistaan-e-sa.adii

Saadi Shirazi

Story 38 - The Manners of Kings - gulistaan-e-sa.adii

Saadi Shirazi

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    A company of philosophers were discussing a subject in the palace of Kesra and Barzachumihr, having remained silent, they asked him why he took no share in the debate. He replied: 'Veziers are like physicians and the latter give medicine to the sick only but, as I perceive that your opinions are in conformity with propriety, I have nothing to say about them.'

    When an affair succeeds without my idle talk

    It is not meet for me to speak thereon.

    But if I see a blind man near a well

    It is a crime for me to remain silent.

    A company of philosophers were discussing a subject in the palace of Kesra and Barzachumihr, having remained silent, they asked him why he took no share in the debate. He replied: 'Veziers are like physicians and the latter give medicine to the sick only but, as I perceive that your opinions are in conformity with propriety, I have nothing to say about them.'

    When an affair succeeds without my idle talk

    It is not meet for me to speak thereon.

    But if I see a blind man near a well

    It is a crime for me to remain silent.

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