Several officials of Sultan Mahmud asked Hasan Muimandi one day what the sultan had told him about a certain affair. He replied: ‘You must yourselves have heard it.’ They rejoined: ‘What he says to thee he does not think proper to communicate to the like of us.’ He answered: ‘Because he trusts that I shall not reveal it. Then why do you ask me to do so?’ <br /> <br /> A knowing man will not utter every word which occurs to him. <br /> It is not proper to endanger one’s head for the king’s secret.<br /><br />Saadi Shirazi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ch-04-on-the-advantages-of-silence-story-08/
