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1. | Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be. |
2. | Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips. |
3. | A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. |
4. | Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? |
5. | Better is open protest than love kept secret. |
6. | The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false. |
7. | The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet. |
8. | Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station. |
9. | Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul. |
10. | Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off. |
11. | My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame. |
12. | The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble. |
13. | Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. |
14. | He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse. |
15. | Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. |
16. | He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. |
17. | Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend. |
18. | Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured. |
19. | Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another. |
20. | The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. |
21. | The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for. |
22. | Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him. |
23. | Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; |
24. | For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. |
25. | The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. |
26. | The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: |
27. | There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls. |
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