The following are a selection of words and definitions from
Obayd-i Zakani's "Satirical Social Dictionary", which we can still
relate to today, although they were written seven centuries ago:
(Translated into English by Mahmud Kianush)

WORLD: A place where no creature can ever rest

WISE: One who lives free from the world and men

PERFECT: One who never gets excited either by sadness or happiness

GENEROUS: One who has no greed for position, or for wealth

HUMAN: One who strives for the welfare of others

THOUGHT: What uselessly makes people ill

LEARNED: One who does not know how to live

IGNORANT: Man of wealth and health

SAGE: One who has no health and wealth

MEAN: Wealthy

FAILURE: The man who seeks knowledge

TEACHER: The head of the failures

HOLIDAY-HOUSE: School

ORATOR: A donkey

PENSION: What would never be paid

BILL: A piece of rotten paper, which makes a hell of anxiety

UNJUST: Manager of endowment affairs

DESERVEDLY MURDERED: An income tax collector

NIGHT-WATCH: A person who robs people at night and asks them for reward by day

JUDGE: One who is always cursed by people

ASSISTANT JUDGE: One who has no faith

LAWYER: One who makes wrong out of right

BRIBE: The saviour of the poor and the helpless

JUSTICE: What never says the truth

MEDIATOR: One with whom God and men are always dissatisfied

JUDGE'S EYE: A pot which never gets filled

GRAVE: A Judge's end

ANGEL OF HELL: His waiter

HELL: His abode

HAPPY: One who never meets a judge