Boss is always right!
The cabinet ministers of
Nushirowan were debating an important affair of state, and each delivered his
opinion according to the best of his judgment. In like manner the king also
delivered his sentiments, and Abu-zarchamahr, the prime minister, accorded in
opinion with him. The other ministers whispered him, saying, "What did you
see superior in the king's opinion that you preferred it to the judgment of so
many wise heads?" He replied: "Because the event is doubtful, and the
opinion of all rests in the pleasure of the most high God whether it shall be
right or wrong. Accordingly it is safer to conform with the judgment of the
king, because if that shall prove wrong, our obsequiousness to his will shall
secure us from his displeasure.—To sport an opinion contrary to the judgment of
the king were to wash our hands in our own blood. Were he verily to say this
day is night, it would behoove us to reply: Lo! there are the moon and seven
stars."
They have related that at
a hunting seat they were roasting some game for Nushirowan, and as there was no
salt they were dispatching a servant to the village to fetch some. Nushirowan
called to him, saying, "Take it at its fair price, and not by force, lest
a bad precedent be established and the village desolated." They asked,
"What damage can ensue from this trifle?" He answered,
"Originally, the basis of oppression in this world was small, and every
newcomer added to it, till it reached to its present extent:—Let the monarch
eat but one apple from a peasant's orchard, and his guards, or slaves, will
pull up the tree by its root. From the plunder of five eggs, that the king
shall sanction, his troops will stick a thousand fowls on their spits."
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