What occupation is there

Which has not its principles?

Has a robber also any norm

Or principle in his proceedings?

That a robber in his recklessness

Is able to come to the conclusion

That there are treasures and valuables

Hidden in a place shows his insight;

That he is the first to enter it

Shows his great courage;

That he is the last to quit it

Shows his awareness of duities;

That he knows whether the robbery

May be attempted or not

Shows his wisdom; and that he makes

An equal division of the plunder

Among his men and partners

Shows his strong sense of justice.

At large, without all the five qualities

No one on earth has ever attained

To become someone clever.

Looking at the subject in this way,

We see that good men do not arise

Without having the principles

Of respectability, and that none

Could have pursued one's course

Without the same norms and principles.

The matter is that the good men are few,

But those who are not good are many. . .

It follows that those who are sagely wise

And extremely smart benefit the world

In a few moments but injure it in many.