Showing posts with label Nizam al-Mulk. Show all posts
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Thursday, 12 October 2023

One obedient slave is better than three hundred sons

One obedient slave is better than three hundred sons; for the latter desire their father’s death, the former his master’s glory.

In Nizam al-Mulk, The Book of Government, ed. H. Drake (1960), XXVII.117.  Cited in J. Duindam, Dynasties: a global history of power (2016), 87)