1. The ranks of people are predestined,
To honor some above others is a sin!

2. Long experience teaches me a lesson,
He who does not learn from fate is foolish and prone to play.

3. You befriend all people alike as though
You thought the base would be bettered by your friendship.

4. So you raise him in rank that his pride might be heightened,
Yet vileness and faults have weighed him down!

5. You stand by him until he attains his desires;
I see you yielding to the blows of fate and growing grey!

6. And he returns your generosity with ingratitude,
Though betrayal is nothing strange or new!

7. For a man's shortcomings cannot be redressed,
By favors, nor will vileness be cured by gifts.

8. But he of noble soul thinks not ill,
Of a generous gift - nobility suspects no guile.

9. If you exalt the man of many faults
Giving him what he merits not - time is a spy!

10. Honor him as he wishes and you will lower yourself,
Curing the sickness - you turn physician!

11. Be generous with one noble of soul; he will reward you
However time changes, or a loved one comes anew.

12. The noble of nature - chivalry is his heritage -
Valiance of soul though calamities attack!

13. "He who shows favor to the undeserving"
Will be cast into deepest grief by disasters.