1. The dove said:
Who can guarantee your safety?

2. And time is sick through and through,
Exhausting its people.

3. A gentle companion is best.
Wretched is the coarse one!

4. Strange is the bad company.
Pride unravels the strongest tie.

5. Stinginess is a disgraceful vice.
Generosity is an honorable veil.

6. The worst trait is arrogance.
Renown endures.

7. The worst speech is lies.
The best trait is discretion.

8. Silence is the safest armor.
Generosity is the best tradition.

9. Reason is a just judge.
Vanity is a fatal disease.

10. Patience is an unsheathed sword.
Wisdom is the best arbitrator.

11. Ignorance disgraces the youth.
If old age comes, it is death.

12. Life is a fleeting guest.
Wealth is a vanishing shadow.

13. Greed is blame and coarseness.
Asceticism is honor and nobility.

14. The origin of purity is noble lineage.
The most righteous folk

15. Are the noblest in manners.
Lineage inclines

16. Toward ancestral roots.
The Lord enriches the generous.

17. The face of wealth is radiant.
Favors spoil

18. Those who delay them.
Lies, gossip and betrayal

19. Are the worst traits.
Kings are not loyal.

20. Women do not keep their word.
Be slow in matters,

21. Especially joyful ones.
Hasten to good deeds

22. Lest you miss the chance.
Not all times

23. Allow them to be done.
Seize opportunities

24. Lest they turn to sorrows.
Do not rejoice in attainment

25. Nor despair in trials.
The turns of fortune

26. Pass like clouds.
Do not be hasty and stumble.

27. Do not overdo and grow bored.
Beware stubbornness,

28. For it is foolishness.
When seeking a need,

29. Do not be importunate.
Abandon contention and debate,

30. For life cannot be replaced.
Do not be hasty,

31. For haste is disgrace and shame.
You have none but yourself.

32. Do not neglect it.
Do not hoard for your wedding

33. Your reason above your perception.
Do not neglect your kind.

34. Do not be ignorant of yourself.
Do not forget your past.

35. Do not look down on your gender.
Beware wishing

36. And excessive guessing.
Take certainty as safest.

37. Do not rejoice in hearsay.
Others' deeds have passed.

38. Do not be forgetful.
Hasten forgiveness

39. And delay punishment,
Unless you fear corruption.

40. And hold to righteousness.
Give rights

41. Not by whim and bias,
Lest the blossoms wither

42. And thorns proliferate.
People are brothers in bounty.

43. Existence is not like nonexistence.
None attained glory but the generous.

44. None attained renown but the open-handed.
Wealth is a great ally

45. By spending and saving it.