- No highwayman ever attacked a beggar: does a wolf ever bite a dead wolf? 2755
- راه‌زن هرگز گدایی را نزد ** گرگ گرگ مرده را هرگز گزد
- Khizr made a breach in the boat in order that the boat might be saved from the wicked.
- خضر کشتی را برای آن شکست ** تا تواند کشتی از فجار رست
- Since the broken (contrite) one will be saved, be thou broken (contrite). Safety lies in poverty enter into poverty
- چون شکسته می‌رهد اشکسته شو ** امن در فقرست اندر فقر رو
- The mountain that possessed some cash in its mine was riven to pieces by the strokes of the pick-axe.
- آن کهی کو داشت از کان نقد چند ** گشت پاره پاره از زخم کلند
- The sword is for him who has a (high and proud) neck; no blow falls on the shadow that is thrown (flat upon the ground).
- تیغ بهر اوست کو را گردنیست ** سایه که افکندست بر وی زخم نیست
- Eminence is naphtha and fire, O misguided one: O brother, how (why) art thou going into the fire? 2760
- مهتری نفطست و آتش ای غوی ** ای برادر چون بر آذر می‌روی
- How should anything that is level with the earth become a target for arrows? Consider!
- هر چه او هموار باشد با زمین ** تیرها را کی هدف گردد ببین
- (But if) it raise its head from the earth, then, like targets, it will suffer blows irremediable.
- سر بر آرد از زمین آنگاه او ** چون هدفها زخم یابد بی رفو
- This egoism is the ladder of (climbed by) the creatures (of God): they must fall from this ladder in the end.
- نردبان خالق این ما و منیست ** عاقبت زین نردبان افتادنیست
- The higher any one goes, the more foolish he is, for his bones will be worse broken.
- هر که بالاتر رود ابله‌ترست ** که استخوان او بتر خواهد شکست