1. Do not blame fate if it obeys or disobeys,
Or if it does wrong once or acts sincerely.

2. Do not reproach it if it comes to apologize,
It is the one who made us dear and cheap.

3. Fate is like its people,
Like a dog, if you feed it one day with scraps

4. The strangest thing is its greediness,
If a man's money increases, so does his greed.

5. People danced to the rhythm of fate,
While fate never danced until they danced.

6. How often a man stumbles on his slipper’s fault,
And if the slipper slips, so do the toes.

7. If you want to walk with the days, do not
Walk except with patience and composure.

8. And do not be except a watchful brother,
If your envier provokes you or watches.

9. Why should I not throw back without anguish,
One who has come to pelt me with pebbles?

10. A crime, a crime except filial disobedience,
Then a brother who sold brotherhood cheaply.

11. Look, do you recognize anything more wondrous,
Than meager ambition with a long rod?

12. As long as the sun disk sinks for an eater,
He counts in his food the bites on you.

13. And do not say he who threw, threw and escaped,
He must choke on what he choked.

14. And turn away from the first to the last, and do not
Bother with it, and gain by the opportunity.

15. Leave the sin of the vulgar people among them,
And aim at the head, the refined and shapely top.

16. Who do I have that I may lack a brother,
Lamenting with the beloved one who makes bitterness sweet?

17. These days are nothing but a loan
That has passed hastily or like a fleeting shadow.

18. It is vain that you rebel in the desolate abode or overflow
On the meadow where water does not cover the bulrush.

19. When the steed deviates from its track,
However much it surpasses in the race, it steps back.