It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.

Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

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

It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.