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• So the holy children of the good offered sacrifice in secret and with one accord enacted this holy law: that the holy ones should share good things and dangers alike; and forthwith they chanted the hymns of the ancestors. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 9)

• One and the same punishment had struck slave and master alike, and now commoner and king had the same sufferings to endure. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 11)

• My child, do not refuse the poor a livelihood, do not tantalise the needy. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 1)

• Do not grovel to the foolish, do not show partiality to the influential. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 27)

• Keep your distance from the man who has the power to put to death, and you will not be haunted by the fear of dying. If you do approach him, make no false move, or he may take your life. Realise that you are treading among trip-lines, that you are strolling on the battlements. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 13)

• For in death the portion of all alike will be insects, wild animals and worms. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 11)

• Do not ever trust an enemy; as bronze tarnishes, so does an enemy's malice. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 10)

• Do not affect to treat him as an equal, do not trust his flow of words; since all this talking is expressly meant to test you, under cover of geniality he will be weighing you up. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 11)

• And had there been only one man stubborn, it would have been amazing had he escaped unpunished, since mercy and wrath alike belong to the Lord who is mighty to forgive and to pour out wrath. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 11)

• The mountains and earth's foundations alike quail and tremble when he looks at them. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 19)

• Who is going to praise the Most High in Sheol if we do not glorify him while we are alive? (Ecclesiasticus 17, 27)

• those who eat my bread have malicious tongues.' How often he will be laughed at, and by how many! (Ecclesiasticus 20, 17)