among the manners of a king if he approaches a person or becomes intimate with him to the point of joking and laughing with him and then enters upon him later is that he enters as if he had never been intimate with him and that he shows more reverence respect and humility to him than he did before because the manners of kings are not in order.
ومن أخلاق الملك، إذا قرب إنسانا أو أنس به حتى يهازله ويضاحكه، ثم دخل عليه بعد، أن يدخل دخول من لم يجر بينهما أنس قط، وأن يظهر من الإجلال له والتعظيم والاستخذاء أكثر مما كان عليه قبل، فإن أخلاق الملوك ليست على نظام.