أَما تَرى المرءَ له عِبرةٌ

مَتْلَفةٌ يشقَى بها الحُرُّ

Do you not see that man has lessons

To be learned from his state of woe?

لا تلتمسُ فضلَ الغِنَى إنهُ

في صدفٍ أهلكه الدُّرُّ

Seek not the excess of wealth, for it

Is a shell destroyed by the pearl.