1. How long will you hope for care from the indifferent one,
And beg favors from the miser?

2. As if you, in what you have tried,
Are gathering the brightness of your day with the evening star.

3. You have burdened your heart with great worry,
In hoping for a little kindness.

4. In desiring the arrogant there is humiliation,
And in accepting despair there is honor for the disgraced.

5. So do not disobey good advice, for caution protects,
Ones like you from seeking the impossible.

6. They forgot or neglected my covenant and turned,
To denying love, all who once inclined toward it.

7. And when they saw my beauty as ugliness,
They saw the blemish of beauty in the beautiful.

8. They asked about you and changed toward you, so ask about them,
And leave what has turned away from them to change.

9. And do not seek compensation from them,
For all people are from the sons of their time.

10. And do not grieve for the betrayal of a friend,
For loyalty has been erased from the friend.

11. Overlook the speck, and rest your eye,
Silencing your grief over the intrusive anxiety.