1. وَالجَدُّ لَيسَ بِزائِدٍ في رِزقِ مَن

    يَسعى وَلَيسَ بِنائِمٍ عَن نائِمِ

    And fortune does not increase the sustenance of one

    who strives, nor does it slumber, heedless of a sleeper.

  2. وَيَموتُ راعي الضَأنِ عِندَ ثُمامِهِ

    مَوتَ الطَبيبِ الفَيلَسوفِ العالِمِ

    And the shepherd of sheep dies beside his thumam grass,

    the same death as the learned physician-philosopher.