Story 8

  Several officials of Sultan Mahmud asked Hasan Muimandi one day what

the sultan had told him about a certain affair. He replied: 'You

must yourselves have heard it.' They rejoined: 'What he says to thee

he does not think proper to communicate to the like of us.' He

answered: 'Because he trusts that I shall not reveal it. Then why do

you ask me to do so?'

  A knowing man will not utter every word which occurs to him.

  It is not proper to endanger one's head for the king's secret.