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• What has dust and ashes to pride itself on? Even in life its entrails are repellent. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)

• Good and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, all come from the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 14)

• A human being has life and death before him; whichever he prefers will be given him. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 17)

• Do not count on their having long life, do not put too much faith in their number; for better have one than a thousand, better die childless than have children who are godless. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 3)

• He set knowledge before them, he endowed them with the law of life. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 11)

• The dead can praise no more than those who do not exist, only those with life and health can praise the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 28)

• The length of his life: a hundred years at most. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 9)

• Grubs and worms will have him as their legacy, and the man who knows no shame will lose his life. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 3)

• Flee from sin as from a snake, if you approach it, it will bite you; its teeth are lion's teeth, they take human life away. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 2)

• Shed tears for the dead, who has left the light behind; shed tears for the fool, who has left his wits behind. Shed quieter tears for the dead who is at rest, for the fool life is worse than death. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 11)

• Lord, father and master of my life, do not abandon me to their whims, do not let me fall because of them. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 1)

• Lord, father and God of my life, do not let my eyes be proud, (Ecclesiasticus 23, 4)