1. Learn from the crafty one what purifies
you from the deceit of every sly youth.

2. Take for your old age the cunning of youth
and from the events of time, lessons for the future.

3. And if most of creation is in madness,
you alone are not the reasonable one.

4. So be, among them, a knowledgeable, working man
for they are the servants of the world's worker.