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  • O ye whose understanding and judgement are (derived) from my judgement and from my world-adorning gifts?
  • What else (but good) should the picture think of the painter, since he bestowed thought and knowledge upon it? 3035
  • Had ye such a vile opinion of me, O ye who are a scandal to the world?
  • If I should not behead them that think ill of God, it would be the essence of wrong.
  • I will deliver the Sphere (of Time) from your disgrace, so that this tale shall remain in the world (as a warning).”
  • While thus meditating, the lion continued to smile visibly: do not trust the smiles of the lion!
  • Worldly wealth is (like) the smiles of God: it has made us drunken and vainglorious and threadbare (deprived of the means of salvation). 3040
  • Poverty and distress are better for thee, O lord, for (then) that smile will remove its lure.
  • How the lion made trial of the wolf and said, “Come forward, O wolf, and divide the prey amongst us.”
  • The lion said, “O wolf, divide this (prey): O old wolf, make justice new (give it new life by thy example).
  • Be my deputy in the office of distributor, that it may be seen of what substance thou art.”