Note 63 — HISTORY OF FARRUKHRÚZ, THE FAVOURITE OF FORTUNE.[63]
Edward Rehatsek translation
“Sometimes it happens,” says our author, “that a man is such a favourite of fortune that if another try to injure him even that will turn to his advantage. Good men refrain in thought and word and deed from injuring their fellow men; but evil-minded men resemble scorpions in their nature, stinging everybody without cause, and with no profit to themselves, while the objects of their hatred nevertheless prosper;—as will appear from the following story of the adventures of Farrukhrúz, whose success was promoted by the enmity which the vazírs of the king of Yaman entertained against him.”