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

• Teaching a fool is like gluing bits of pottery together -- you are rousing someone who is besotted with sleep. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 9)

• 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)

• for fear my errors should multiply and my sins then abound and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy gloat over me? (Ecclesiasticus 23, 3)

• The sinner is ensnared by his own lips, both the abusive and the proud are tripped by them. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 8)

• for just as a slave who is constantly overseen will never be without bruises, so someone who is always swearing and uttering the Name will not be exempt from sin. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 10)

• A man for ever swearing is full of iniquity, and the scourge will not depart from his house. If he offends, his sin will be on him, if he did it unheedingly, he has doubly sinned; if he swears a false oath, he will not be treated as innocent, for his house will be filled with calamities. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 11)

• One way of talking is like death, let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob since devout people have nothing to do with that: they will not wallow in sin. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 12)

• Do not get into the habit of using coarse and foul language since this involves sinful words. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 13)

• No one in the habit of using shameful language will break himself of it as long as he lives. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 15)

• There are two types of people who commit sin after sin and a third who attracts retribution- (Ecclesiasticus 23, 16)