ABSTRACT
And when I cloathed myself in the robe of empire, I shut my eyes to safety, and to the repose which is found on the bed of ease. And from the twelfth year of my age I travelled over countries, and combated difficulties, and formed enterprises and vanquished armies, and I hazarded my person in the hour of danger; until in the end I vanquished kingdoms and empires, and established the glory of my name.—From The Institutes of Timur.
