1. If you have not sown, then see a reaper,

    you will regret your neglect in the season of sowing.

  2. If you wish to borrow money to spend

    on the soul’s desires in a time of hardship,

  3. then ask your soul to spend from the treasury of its patience

    upon you, and to grant you respite until a time of ease.

  4. If you do so, you are the rich one; but if it refuses,

    then every withholder after it is amply excused.

  5. Poverty is not the noble person’s destitution, nor does wealth lie—

    though opinions stray—in sheer abundance.

  6. Some wealth has its beauty effaced by faults,

    while a person’s true nature emerges pure in hardship.

Sol 6.1