Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

7.51. Doing bodily injury, reviling, and the seizure of property, these three he must know to be the most
pernicious in the set produced by wrath.
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7.52. A self-controlled (king) should know that in this set of seven, which prevails everywhere, each earliernamed
vice is more abominable (than those named later).
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7.53. (On a comparison) between vice and death, vice is declared to be more pernicious; a vicious man sinks to
the nethermost (hell), he who dies, free from vice, ascends to heaven.
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7.54. Let him appoint seven or eight ministers whose ancestors have been royal servants, who are versed in the
sciences, heroes skilled in the use of weapons and descended from (noble) families and who have been tried.
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7.55. Even an undertaking easy (in itself) is (sometimes) hard to be accomplished by a single man; how much
(harder is it for a king), especially (if he has) no assistant, (to govern) a kingdom which yields great revenues.
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7.56. Let him daily consider with them the ordinary (business, referring to) peace and war, (the four subjects
called) sthana, the revenue, the (manner of) protecting (himself and his kingdom), and the sanctification of his
gains (by pious gifts).
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7.57. Having (first) ascertained the opinion of each (minister) separately and (then the views) of all together, let
him do what is (most) beneficial for him in his affairs.
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7.58. But with the most distinguished among them all, a learned Brahmana, let the king deliberate on the most
important affairs which relate to the six measures of royal policy.
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7.59. Let him, full of confidence, always entrust to that (official) all business; having taken his final resolution
with him, let him afterwards begin to act.
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7.60. He must also appoint other officials, (men) of integrity, (who are) wise, firm, well able to collect money,
and well tried.
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