1. Do not rejoice at good omens you hear about,
Nor fret when a wailing woman wails.

2. Calamities are more dreadful to contemplate
Than ease to nurture fearfulness.

3. When you reflect rationally, undisturbed
By an unsound mind, the difficult seems slight.

4. If the heart be healthy, it grants respite to the soul
Until you die, making its striving but play.

5. The delusions of vain women in their playing
Are naught but fancies of a time that played at play.

6. The body's excess burdens its bearer
Down to dust, increasing the digging of a grave.