Wealth has no permanence: it comes in the morning,
and at night it is scattered to the winds.
Physical beauty too has no importance,
for a rosy face is made pale by the scratch of a single thorn.
Noble birth also is of small account,
for many become fools of money and horses.

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Reference: Mathnawi VI: 255-260 in

Camille and Kabir Helminski
“Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance”
Threshold Books, 1996