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I asked counsel from all, but I considered the good and the evil of every opinion, and from each I selected those things which were just and expedient.

AND I asked counsel from all: but I considered the good and the evil of every opinion; and from each I selected those things which were just and expedient.

Amir Timur
from Institutes Political and Military (Tuzukat-i Timuri), Book I, Designs and Enterprises, p. 15, trans. Major William Davy, ed. Joseph White, Oxford 1783. Traditionally ascribed to Timur; the surviving compilation is generally dated to the seventeenth century. ↗