| Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 81 | |
| A sage was asked: ‘Of so many notable, high and fertile trees which God the most high has created, not one is called free, except the cypress, which bears no fruit. What is the reason of this?’ He replied: ‘Every tree has its appropriate season of fruit, so that it is sometimes flourishing therewith, and looks sometimes withered by its absen . . . | |
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| Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 08 | |
| A great man was praised in an assembly and, his good qualities being extolled, he raised his head and said: ‘I am such as I know myself to be.’ O thou who reckonest my virtues, refrainest from giving me pain, These are my open, and thou knowest not my hidden, qualities. My person is, to the . . . | |
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