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• All wickedness is nothing compared with a woman's wickedness. Let her lot be that of a sinner! (Ecclesiasticus 25, 19)

• For sin began with woman and we all die because of the inheritance of the congregations of Israel. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 24)

• Like the sun rising over the mountains of the Lord, such is the enchantment of a good wife in a well-kept house. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 16)

• There are two things which grieve me and a third which makes me angry: a warrior who suffers want; intelligent men who are treated contemptuously; a man who turns from virtue to sin. The Lord singles this man out to strike him down. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 28)

• The merchant can barely avoid greed; the shopkeeper cannot remain sinless. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 29)

• Many sin for love of gain, he who desires riches silences his conscience. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 1)

• Just as the stake is settled between two stones, so sin wedges itself between buying and selling. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 2)

• Praise no one before he has spoken, since this is the acid test. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 7)

• The lion lurks in wait for its prey; so, too, does sin lie in wait for those who do wrong. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 10)

• He is all sweetness to your face, praising your words, but behind your back he speaks differently and twists your words. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 23)

• Grudge and wrath, these also are abominations in which sinful people excel. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 30)

• He who demands revenge will suffer the vengeance of the Lord who keeps a strict account of his sins. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 1)