Siman 100

(20.) I heard in his name regarding the famous wonder-workers: he told a story that a certain king had two sons — one was wise and one was a fool. And he appointed the fool as treasurer over the storehouses, while the wise one had no appointment whatsoever — he just sat beside the king always. And it was very difficult for the world — that this one who is not wise has all the appointments, and everyone comes and enters to him to deposit into or withdraw from the storehouses. While this wise one has no appointment at all. And the king answered them: Is it a virtue that he takes ready-made treasuries and distributes them to the world? For this wise one sits beside me and thinks thoughts and arrives at new strategies that I would not have been able to arrive at [myself]. And through these strategies I conquer provinces that I knew nothing at all of — from which provinces all my treasuries flow and come. But this appointee takes ready-made treasuries and distributes them to the world. Therefore certainly the greatness and elevation of the wise one is far above the appointee — even though it appears that he has no appointment at all. For from him flow all the aforementioned treasuries.