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• Since the first stage of pride is sin, whoever clings to it will pour forth filth. This is why the Lord inflicts unexpected punishments on such people, utterly destroying them. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 13)

• Do not grow proud when people honour you; for the works of the Lord are wonderful but hidden from human beings. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 4)

• Many influential people have been utterly disgraced, and prominent people have fallen into the power of others. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 6)

• Some people work very hard at top speed, only to find themselves falling further behind. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 11)

• The rich speaks and everyone stops talking, and then they praise his discourse to the skies. The poor speaks and people say, 'Who is this?' and if he stumbles, they trip him up yet more. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 23)

• One person of sense can populate a city, but a race of lawless people will be destroyed. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 4)

• He did not spare the people with whom Lot lived; he abhorred them, rather, for their pride. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 8)

• He was pitiless to the nation of perdition -- those people who gloried in their sins- (Ecclesiasticus 16, 9)

• Do not say, 'I shall hide from the Lord; who is going to remember me up there? I shall not be noticed among so many people; what am I in the immensity of creation?' (Ecclesiasticus 16, 17)

• People sometimes make a slip, without meaning what they say; and which of us has never sinned by speech? (Ecclesiasticus 19, 16)

• There is the honour that leads to humiliation, and there are people in a low state who raise their heads. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 11)

• To build your house with other people's money is like collecting stones for your own tomb. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 8)