as for kings and their sons their morals are not measured or reproached for. for one of them would place the most hostile of gods creations between his ear and his shoulder and between his magic and his throat and thus the period would be prolonged and the ages would pass him by. and if he had killed him at the first incident that occurred and at the first stumble he made he would not have been…
فأما الملوك وأبناءهم، فليست تقاس أخلاقهم، ولا يعاير عليها. إذ كان أحدهم يضع أعدى خلق الله له بين أذنه وعاتقه، وبين سحره ونحره، فتطول بذلك المدة، وتمر به الأزمنة، وهو لو قتله في أول حادثة تكون، وعند أول عثرة يعثر، لم يكن