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بامدادی موبد موبدان با قباد همعنان می رفت مرکب وی به دفع فضلات قوایم خود را از دم تا سم بیالود و تشویر تمام به وی راه یافت در آن اثنا قباد وی را از آداب همرکابی ملوک و همعنانی سلاطین سؤال کرد.
گفت: یکی آن است که در شبی که بامداد آن با پادشاه سواری خواهد کرد مرکب خود را چندان علف ندهد که بامداد موجب تشویر راکب گردد قباد استحسان وی کرد و گفت: بدین حسن کیاست و صدق فراست که رسیده ای به آنچه رسیده ای.

ناخردمند که بر قاعده طبع رود
همه آداب وی افتد ز ره صدق و صواب

لیک بخرد که به دستور خرد کار کند
شود از حسن کیاست ادب آموز دواب

English translation

One morning the Mobad of Mobads was riding stirrup-to-stirrup with Qobad. His mount, in voiding its dung, soiled its legs from tail to hoof, and complete embarrassment overcame him. In that moment Qobad asked him about the etiquette of riding alongside kings and holding the same rein as sultans. He said: One point is that on the night before the morning he will ride with the king, he should not give his mount so much fodder that in the morning it becomes a cause of the rider's embarrassment. Qobad approved of him and said: With this excellence of sagacity and this truthfulness of discernment, you have reached what you have reached. The unwise one who goes by the rule of [his] nature — all his manners fall from the path of sincerity and right. But the wise one who acts by the counsel of wisdom — through excellence of sagacity, becomes a teacher of manners even to beasts.

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