1. مَنِ ارتقي عاداهُ اقرانُهُ

    مِمَّن رَبي معهُ ولم يرنقِ

    Whoever rises is opposed by his peers,

    among those who grew up with him but never fluttered their wings.

  2. يا عجبا ماذا يضرُّ الفَتى

    سَبقُ سواهُ وهو لم يوثَقِ

    How strange! What harm is there to a young man

    in another's getting ahead, when he himself is not fettered?