عقل در دست نفس چنان گرفتار است که مرد عاجز با زن گُربز. رای بیقوّت مکر و فسون است و قوّت بیرای جهل و جنون.
تمیز باید و تدبیر و عقل و آنگه مُلک
که مُلک و دولتِ نادان سلاح جنگ خداست
Intellect may become captive to lust like a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.
Bid farewell to pleasure in a house Where the shouting of a woman is loud.
A design without strength to execute it is fraud and deception and application of strength without a design is ignorance and lunacy.
Discernment is necessary. Arrangement and intellect, then a realm; For realm and wealth with an ignorant man are weapons against himself.