1. Is despair honorable, and is greed humiliation?
A matter narrows one day, and widens the next.

2. Do not hesitate if an introvert refuses you,
If you will not benefit from entering.

3. What most deserves a prolonged estrangement
Is one with no compassion or satiety.

4. Say to the son of Sahl, for I am a man-
If you do not leave me be, I shall leave you be.

5. Is not my money and my garden generosity?
Patience becoming of me, not anguish.