The emperor's cabbages


There once was a Roman emperor named Diocletian. A pretty good emperor by the way. At the very height of his success and empire, he gave up the crown and retreated to a little house with a vegetable garden. When people begged him to return to the throne to resolve conflicts that had arisen from the new emperor’s rise to power, Diocletian replied:  "If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed."

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