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• But the truly wise instructs his people and his intellectual conclusions are certainties. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 23)

• The wise is showered with blessings, and all who see him will call him happy. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 24)

• The wise will earn confidence among the people, his name will live for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 26)

• Leisure gives the scribe the chance to acquire wisdom; a man with few commitments can grow wise. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 24)

• How can the ploughman become wise, whose sole ambition is to wield the goad, driving his oxen, engrossed in their work, his conversation limited to bullocks, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 25)

• The prime needs of human beings for living are water and fire, iron and salt, wheat-flour, milk and honey, the juice of the grape, oil and clothing. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 26)

• A life spent in eyeing someone else's table cannot be accounted a life at all. Other people's food defiles the gullet; a wise, well-brought-up person will beware of doing this. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 29)

• O death, how bitter it is to remember you for someone peacefully living with his possessions, for someone with no worries and everything going well and who can still enjoy his food! (Ecclesiasticus 41, 1)

• This is the sentence passed on all living creatures by the Lord, so why object to what seems good to the Most High? Whether your life lasts ten or a hundred or a thousand years, its length will not be held against you in Sheol. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 4)

• Others directed the people by their advice, by their understanding of the popular mind, and by the wise words of their teaching; (Ecclesiasticus 44, 4)

• others were rich and powerful, living peacefully in their homes. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 6)

• Everlasting covenants were made with him that never again should every living creature perish by flood. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 18)