 i have given you the skin of my youth in its entirety and the west of my activity in its beginning and you have its profession and the fruit of its strength and i have borne its burdens and its affliction for you and you have its gain and i have its loss and i have given you when my body has declined the strength of my opinion and when my knowledge has been perfected the result of my experience and i have borne for you the weakness of old age and the sickness of decrepitude.
ولقد منحتك جلد شبابي كملا، وغرب نشاطي مقتبلا، وكان لك مهناه، وثمرة قواه، واحتملت دونك عرامه وغربه، وكان لك غنمه وعلي غرمه، وأعطيتك عند إدبار بدني قوة رأيي، وعند تكامل معرفتي نتيجة تجربتي، واحتملت دونك وهن الكبر وإسقام الهرم.