A king once imparted one
of his important secrets to his close aide adding, “Tell it not to anyone.” For
a long time they kept secret in their hearts but one day king found his secret
had become talk of the town. The king ordered execution of his close aide as
punishment for divulging his secret. An adviser begged for mercy, saying: “Kill
not your aide, for the fault was yours. You could not dam up your secret when
it was a spring: why seek to arrest its course now when it has become a flood?
Entrust
jewels to treasurers, but be the keeper of your own secrets. You have the power
until the secrets are kept to the heart.
Speech is a demon confined in the well of the mind;
leave it not free on your palate and tongue. When the genie has escaped from
the cage, no stratagem will bring him back.
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