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• The tale-bearer is his own enemy, shunned by all; court his friendship, and thou wilt court hatred; shut lips and calm judgement shall bring thee a good name. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 31)

• Teach a fool, and mend a pot with glue; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 7)

• thy wise speech ended, Why, what’s to do?✻ ask fool and dreamer alike. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 9)

• Palisade set on high ground, with no better protection against the wind’s fury than cheap rubble, is but of short endurance; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 21)

• One stone flung, and the birds are all on the wing; one taunt uttered, and the friendship is past repair. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 25)

• Hast thou drawn sword against thy friend? Be comforted; all may be as it was. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 26)

• Hast thou assailed him with angry words? Thou mayst yet be reconciled. But the taunt, the contemptuous reproach, the secret betrayed, the covert attack, all these mean a friend lost. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 27)

• Keep faith with a friend when his purse is empty, thou shalt have joy of his good fortune; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 28)

• Never will I be ashamed to greet friend of mine, never deny myself to him; let harm befall me for his sake, I care not. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 31)

• and though it were lightly taken, thou shalt find no excuse in that; plague shall light on all thou hast, in amends for it. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 14)

• Sin of speech there is, too, that has death for its counterpart; God send it be not found in Jacob’s chosen race;✻ (Ecclesiasticus 23, 15)

• from men of tender conscience every such thought is far away, not theirs to wallow in evil-doing. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 16)