What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.