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• Prick an eye and you will draw a tear, prick a heart and you reveal its feelings. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 19)

• Who will set a guard on my mouth, and an efficient seal on my lips, to keep me from falling, and my tongue from causing my ruin? (Ecclesiasticus 22, 27)

• Who will lay whips to my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom to my heart, to be merciless to my errors and not let my sins go unchecked, (Ecclesiasticus 23, 2)

• and makes discipline flow like the Nile, like the Gihon when the grapes are harvested. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 27)

• Making discipline shine forth from daybreak, I shall send its light far and wide. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 32)

• Keep a headstrong daughter under firm control, or, feeling free, she will take advantage of it. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 10)

• Many have sinned for the sake of profit, one who hopes to be rich must turn a blind eye. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 1)

• A peg will stick in the joint between two stones, and sin will wedge itself between selling and buying. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 2)

• The talk of hard-swearing people makes your hair stand on end, their brawling makes you stop your ears. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 14)

• for, as one destroys a person by killing him, so you have killed your neighbour's friendship, (Ecclesiasticus 27, 18)

• Honey-tongued to your face, he is lost in admiration at your words; but behind your back he has other things to say, and turns your words into a stumbling-block. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 23)

• Avoid quarrelling and you will sin less; for the hot-tempered provokes quarrels, (Ecclesiasticus 28, 8)