Translations

Here are several excerpts from miscellaneous texts that I have translated into toki pona. ijo li ike tawa kulupu pi (pipi waso) la ona li ike tawa pipi waso {{}} That which is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees. - Marcus Aurelius {{}} mi kulupu e jan pali zz zzzz en jan pi (jo mute) zzzz en jan pi (pilin ike) zzzz en jan pi (kalama ike) zzzz en jan pi (wile ike) zzzz en jan pi (nasin ike). zz ona li pali e nasin tan zz zz ona li sona+ala e ijo+pona anu ijo+ike. zz taso mi ken lukin e nasin pona la ni4li pona. zz zz mi ken lukin e nasin ike la ni4li ike. zz jan li pali e ike la zz mi lukin e ona la jan sama mi. zz zzzz nasin pi (jan li pali e ike) la zzzzzzzz ona li sewi pali sama mi li sewi pali. zz zzzzzzzzzz telo kule ona sama telo kule mi zz zzzzzzzzzz en mama ona sama mama mi tan ala tu taso ona li pali zz e lili sewi sama mi pali e lili sewi. zz zz jan li pali zz e ike la zz jan ken ala pakala e mi tan ala ken pona e ike mi. zz mi wile pilin utala ala tawa jan. zz sewi li pali e mi mute tan pali kulupu la zzzzzzzzzzzzzzni2sama noka zz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sama luka zz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sama oko selo zz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sama kiwen walo uta. zz mi lukin ala li sona+ala tawa jan la zz mi pali ante tawa jan.zz {{}} I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good, that it is beautiful, and of the bad, that it is ugly. And the nature of them who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same portion of the divitiy. I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsperson, nor hate them. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another is to be vexed and to turn away. {{}} jan [pipi .... n] li toki a e ni2nasin lili li pali zz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz e zz nasin suli . zz {{}} "Short cuts make long delays," argued Pippin. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring {{}}