If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.

My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;

Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.

There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:

Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.