1. Knowledge, if man devotes himself to serving it
Will make the free people of the world its servants

2. And he who built his worth on glory and inherited it
From his ancestors, not his in-laws, has demolished it

3. He who recklessly collided with fate overestimating his strength
Judge him as one whom fate has collided with

4. And he who socializes with wicked peers
Will regret their fellowship brought him shorter

5. How many an existence, if you examine its image
You find its absence nobler than its yield

6. And everyone with nobility, if not for his virtues
Of merits, would equal his head and his foot

7. And how often the learned kisses the cheek of a lad
Whose orbit of days has served him

8. Fear most the one whose ignorance you think
Is a dam, when he is a rat who has demolished it

9. Yes, and the sweetest taste you relish
Is a face that has savored life and let it intoxicate him