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• Do battle for the right, all thy life long, and with thy last breath do battle for the right still; God, in thy cause, will overcome thy enemies. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 33)

• boasting of thy strength, and asking who will call thee to account for thy doings; God will find a way to punish thee. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 3)

• Dost thou tell thyself God’s mercies are great, and he will pardon thy sins for all they are so many? (Ecclesiasticus 5, 6)

• true friendship, elixir of life, and of life eternal! Only those who fear God will come by it; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 16)

• the fear of God gives friendship evenly shared, friend matched with friend. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 17)

• The enlightenment which comes with wisdom is true to its name; known to so few, yet where men are acquainted with it, it waits to light them into the presence of God.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 6, 23)

• Where older men than thou are met, and wiser, take thou thy place, and give thy whole heart to their teaching; old tales of God’s wonders thou shalt hear, and sayings of much renown. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 35)

• Think ever upon God’s commandments, and be constant in the following of his will; be sure he will give thee perseverance, and all thy desire for wisdom shall be granted thee. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 37)

• Never ask of God high station, or of the king preferment. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 4)

• Never try to prove thy innocence before God, who knows all, nor thy subtlety before the king. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 5)

• Do not flatter thyself that God will look favourably on thy many offerings, as if he, the most High, could not refuse thy gifts. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 11)

• Taunt never the disconsolate; God, who sees all, casts men down and lifts them up. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 12)