thumam

Updated: July 14, 2025

For we have read, in such and such a history, what says Ibn eth Thumam: Tell not thy secrets: keep them with all thy might. A secret revealed is a secret lost outright. If thine own bosom cannot thy secrets hold, Why expect more reserve from another wight? Or, as well says Abou Nuwas on the same subject: The fool, that to men doth his secrets avow, Deserves to be marked with a brand on the brow.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I