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• There is the person who keeps quiet and is considered wise, another incurs hatred for talking too much. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 5)

• The wise will keep quiet till the right moment, but a garrulous fool will always misjudge it. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 7)

• The wise wins love with words, while fools may shower favours in vain. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 13)

• The wise gains advancement by words, the shrewd wins favour from the great. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 27)

• Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise and stifle rebukes like a muzzle on the mouth. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 29)

• The sage's knowledge is as rich as the abyss and his advice is like a living spring. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 13)

• If the educated hears a wise saying, he praises it and caps it with another; if a debauchee hears it, he does not like it and tosses it behind his back. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 15)

• The lips of gossips repeat the words of others, the words of the wise are carefully weighed. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 25)

• The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the mouth of the wise is in their heart. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 26)

• the poor for ever toils, barely making a living, and then, leaving off, is poorer than ever. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 4)

• No one who hates the Law is wise, one who is hypocritical about it is like a storm-tossed ship. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 2)

• Another considers himself wise and proclaims his intellectual conclusions as certainties. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 22)