The situation of my people was known unto me.

And those who were great among them I considered as my brethren; and I regarded the poor as my children.

And I made myself acquainted with the tempers and the dispositions of the people of every country and of every city.

And I contracted intimacies with the citizens and the chiefs and the nobles; and I appointed over them governors adapted to their manners and their dispositions and their wishes.

And I knew the circumstances of the inhabitants of every province.