A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.

Flog a scorner, and as a result the simpleton will learn prudence; correct a discerning person, and as a result he will understand knowledge.

It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

You will say, “They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”