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Of the requisites for conducting the affairs of dominion, nine tenths are deliberation, and counsel, and provident measures; and the sword is one portion only.

AND behold this letter was a guide which pointed out to me the way; and shewed unto me, that of the requisites for conducting the affairs of dominion nine tenths are Deliberation, and Counsel, and provident Measures; and that the Sword is one portion only.

Amir Timur
from Institutes Political and Military (Tuzukat-i Timuri), Book I, Designs and Enterprises, p. 7, trans. Major William Davy, ed. Joseph White, Oxford 1783. Traditionally ascribed to Timur; the surviving compilation is generally dated to the seventeenth century. ↗