 warn you of the fate of the deceived and i raise you from the beds of the deceived. you are not like one who has always endured the difficulty of matters tasted the bitterness of life endured the burden of toil and drunk from the cup of humiliation until his skin almost became accustomed to it and his heart calmed down. the poverty of someone like you doubles the pain and the impatience of one who has not known pain is more severe. he who is always poor does not know the gloaters nor does he enter into the unpleasantness of the joy of the envious nor is he blamed for his poverty nor does he become a sermon for others nor a talk whose memory remains and which his children announce after death.
إني أحذرك مصارع المخدوعين، وأرفعك عن مضاجع المغبونين. إنك لست كمن لم يزل يقاسي تعذر الأمور، ويتجرع ٣ مرار العيش، ويتحمل ثقل الكد، ويشرب بكأس الذل، حتى كاد يمرن على ذلك جلده ويسكن عليه قلبه. وفقر مثلك مضاعف الألم، وجزع من لم يعرف الألم أشد. ومن لم يزل فقيرا فهو لا يعرف الشامتين، ولا يدخله المكروه من سرور الحاسدين، ولا يلام على فقره، ولا يصير موعظة لغيره، وحديثا يبقى ذكره، ويعلنه بعد الممات ولده.