Calligraphed scorpion, mid-19th c, attributed to Bahadur Shah Zafar:
It reads:
نیش عقرب نه از ره کینه است
مقتضای طبیعتش این است
”Scorpion’s stinging is not out of aversion. It is [unintentionally] required by his nature.”
Via Prashant Keshavmurthy few years ago 
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