A padshah having issued orders to kill an innocent man, the latter said: ‘"O king, seek not thine own injury on account of the anger thou bearest towards me." He asked: "How?" The man replied: "This punishment will abide with me one moment but the sin of it for ever with thee." <br /> <br /> The period of life has passed away like the desert wind. <br /> Bitter and sweet, ugliness and beauty have passed away. <br /> The tyrant fanded he had done injury to us. <br /> It remained on his neck and passed away from us. <br /> This admonition having taken effect, the king spared his blood.<br /><br />Saadi Shirazi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ch-01-manner-of-kings-story-30/
