مردکی را چشم درد خاست، پیش بیطار رفت که دوا کن. بیطار از آنچه در چشم چارپای میکند در دیده او کشید و کور شد. حکومت به داور بردند گفت بر او هیچ تاوان نیست. اگر این خر نبودی، پیش بیطار نرفتی. مقصود از این سخن آن است تا بدانی که هر آن که ناآزموده را کار بزرگ فرماید با آن که ندامت برد به نزدیک خردمندان به خفت رای منسوب گردد.
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نبرندش به کارگاه حریر
A little man with a pain in his eyes went to a farrier to be treated by him. The farrier applied to his eyes what he used to put in those of quadrupeds so that the man became blind and lodged a complaint with the judge who, however, refrained from punishing the farrier, saying: ‘Had this man not been an ass, he would not have gone to a farrier.’ The moral of this story is to let thee know that whoever entrusts an inexperienced man with an important business and afterwards repents is by intelligent persons held to suffer from levity of intellect.
A shrewd and enlightened man will not give Affairs of importance to a base fellow to transact. A mat-maker although employed in weaving Is not set to work in a silk-factory.
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