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گر شود بیمار دشمن با طبیب ** ور کند کودک عداوت با ادیب
- If the sick man become an enemy to the physician, or if the boy show hostility to the teacher,
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در حقیقت ره زن جان خودند ** راه عقل و جان خود را خود زدند
- In truth they act as brigands against themselves: they themselves waylay their own mind and spirit.
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گازری گر خشم گیرد ز آفتاب ** ماهیی گر خشم میگیرد ز آب 800
- If a fuller take offence at the sun, if a fish is taking offence at the water,
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تو یکی بنگر که را دارد زیان ** عاقبت که بود سیاه اختر از آن
- Just once consider whom that (anger) injures, and whose star is eclipsed by it in the end.
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گر ترا حق آفریند زشت رو ** هان مشو هم زشت رو هم زشت خو
- If God create you with ugly features, take care lest you become both ugly-featured and ugly-natured;
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ور برد کفشت مرو در سنگلاخ ** ور دو شاخ استت مشو تو چار شاخ
- And if He take away your shoes, do not go into stony ground; and if you have two spikes, don't become four-spiked.
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تو حسودی کز فلان من کمترم ** میفزاید کمتری در اخترم
- You are envious, saying, “I am inferior to so-and-so: he (by his superior position) is increasing my inferiority in fortune.”
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خود حسد نقصان و عیبی دیگر است ** بلکه از جمله کمیها بدتر است 805
- (But) indeed envy is another defect and fault; nay, it is worse than all inferiorities.
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آن بلیس از ننگ و عار کمتری ** خویش را افکند در صد ابتری
- That Devil (Satan), through the shame and disgrace of inferiority (to Adam), cast himself into a hundred damnations.
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از حسد میخواست تا بالا بود ** خود چه بالا بلکه خونپالا بود
- Because of envy, he wished to be at the top. At the top, forsooth! Nay, (he wished) to be a blood-shedder.