1. When you want to see the virtue of a friend
Look with the eye of insight at who is close to him
١. وإَذا أَرَدْتَ تَرى فَضيلَةَ صَاحِبٍ
فَانْظُرْ بِعَيْنِ البَحْثِ مَنْ نُدْمانُهُ
2. For a person is folded over his own nature
Like the folds of a book, and his friends are its title
٢. فَالمَرْءُ مَطْويٌّ عَلى عِلاَّتِهِ
طَيَّ الكِتابِ وصَحْبُهُ عُنْوَانُهُ