1. No regret comes with doing good
No loss accompanies remembrance

2. No treachery comes from the self
No honor comes with arrogance

3. No generosity comes with betrayal
No ruin comes with vanity

4. No recompense comes with praise
No purpose but God is sought

5. No wisdom comes with conceit
No trust comes with lies

6. No piety comes with greed
No ambition comes with might

7. No maturity comes with play
No religion comes from lies

8. No lineage comes with blame
No merit comes with ignorance

9. No joy comes with death
No comfort comes with knowledge

10. No fatigue comes with despair
No tranquility comes with poverty

11. Temperaments are not alike
Nights do not return the same

12. No sincere advisor is a faultfinder
No tyrant is a counselor

13. Fate does not waver
Time does not come back

14. Ferocity does not last
Limits cannot be maintained

15. No bounty comes from stinginess
No intimacy comes from aloofness

16. Wealth’s shadow is injustice
The glory of high rank is booty

17. Leave off toil for glory
In generosity, straitness is plenty

18. No sadness comes with patience
You have excelled in this discourse

19. Better than a dumb life
Is that the life is but a breath