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• Opposite evil stands good, opposite death, life; so too opposite the devout stands the sinner. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 14)

• A much travelled man knows many things, and a man of great experience will talk sound sense. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 9)

• If someone washes after touching a corpse, and then touches it again, what is the good of his washing? (Ecclesiasticus 34, 25)

• Just so with someone who fasts for sin, and then goes and commits it again. Who is going to hear that person's prayer? What is the good of the self-abasement? (Ecclesiasticus 34, 26)

• for the Lord is a good rewarder, he will reward you seven times over. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 10)

• good and evil, life and death, and mistress of them always is the tongue. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 18)

• One kind of person is clever at teaching others, yet is no good whatever to himself; (Ecclesiasticus 37, 19)

• for not everything is good for everybody, nor does everybody like everything. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 28)

• There are times when good health depends on doctors. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 13)

• Similarly with all workmen and craftsmen, toiling day and night; those who engrave seals, for ever trying to think of a new design, concentrating on catching a good likeness and staying up late to get the work done. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 27)

• He researches into the hidden sense of proverbs, he ponders the obscurities of parables. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 3)

• He enters the service of princes, he is seen in the presence of rulers. He travels in foreign countries, he has experienced human good and human evil. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 4)