1. I wish I knew what it was about my friend
That made him become obsessed with love until he abandoned me

2. Do not let time make you submissively patient
With burning passion, hasty to take offense

3. What you get from me is the sweetest gain
Yet he sees a chance to deny me of it

4. He asks people but does not give them anything
His stupidity - how greedy has it made him!

5. Speak the truth when you say something
And beware reproaches against you in the assembly

6. Do not humiliate me after honoring me
For firmly fixed habits are hard to uproot

7. Do not let your lightning be deceptive lightning
The best lightning is that which brings rain

8. Do not mix truth with falsehood
Truth provides ample scope for the person of truth

9. Observe silence if you have nothing to ask
Silence gives scope to some people to meditate

10. Many a person has uttered sayings
That do no harm if one does not hear them