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• Better a slip on the pavement than a slip of the tongue; this is how ruin takes the wicked by surprise. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 18)

• There is a person who is prevented from sinning by poverty; no qualms of conscience disturb that person's rest. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 21)

• There is a person who courts destruction out of false shame, courts destruction for the sake of a fool's opinion. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 22)

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

• Whoever tills the soil will have a full harvest, whoever wins favour from the great will secure pardon for offences. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 28)

• Wisdom concealed, and treasure undiscovered, what use is either of these? (Ecclesiasticus 20, 30)

• My child, have you sinned? Do so no more, and ask forgiveness for your previous faults. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 1)

• All law-breaking is like a two-edged sword, the wounds it inflicts are beyond cure. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 3)

• To build your house with other people's money is like collecting stones for your own tomb. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 8)

• The talk of a fool is like a load on a journey, but it is a pleasure to listen to the intelligent. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 16)

• When the godless curses Satan, he is cursing himself. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 27)

• The scandal-monger sullies himself and earns the hatred of the neighbourhood. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 28)