For now many domestics look to me for food, many for drink, and many for clothes, while some need doctors; and one comes to me with a tale about sheep attacked by wolves, or of oxen killed by falling over a precipice, or to say that some disease has broken out among the cattle.
آنچه از دولتمندی نصیبم گشته ،‏ این است که حالا ناگزیرم از چیزهای بیشتری مراقبت کنم ،‏ از اموالم به افراد بیشتری بدهم ،‏ و رنج بیشتری را نیز متحمل شوم تا دارایی‌ام را زیاده کنم .‏