1. And a wealthy man was deluded by his ambition

    into thinking that wealth would never part from him.

  2. So he dragged the skirts of his conceit in wanton pride,

    and strutted arrogantly in fine robes.

  3. The hands of calamity stripped him of his attire,

    so he exchanged new garments for threadbare ones.

  4. So do not trust in wealth, for its bane is

    poverty; and time's course has its reversals.

  5. Gaining enough of it suffices to make you independent

    of it; so be unconcerned with it.

Sol 6.1