Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people;
while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes
punishment as deserved becomes respectable.
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people
devoted to righteousness.
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the
nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the
consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts
as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole
when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the
king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man
shall make use of even a child’s sensible utterance.
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for
ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this
kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.
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