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Riches add many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him. How much more do his friends go far from him! He runs to them with words, but they are gone.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding will find good.

A man's understanding makes him slow to anger. It is to his honor to forgive and forget a wrong done to him.

The king's anger is like the noise of a lion, but his favor is like morning water upon the grass.

A foolish son destroys his father. The arguing of a wife is like water falling drop by drop all the time.

He who keeps God's Word keeps his soul, but he who is not careful of his ways will die.

He who shows kindness to a poor man gives to the Lord and He will pay him in return for his good act.

Punish your son if he needs it while there is hope, and do not worry about his crying.

An angry man will suffer punishment. For if you save him from his trouble, you will only have to do it again.

What is desired in a man is his kindness, and it is better to be a poor man than a liar.

The lazy man buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.

He who hurts his father and puts his mother out of the house is a son who causes much shame.

The anger of a king is like the noise of a lion. He who makes him angry gives up his own life.

A king who sits on his throne to judge finds out all sin with his eyes.

A young man makes himself known by his actions and proves if his ways are pure and right.

"It is bad, it is bad," says the one who buys, but when he goes away, he talks much about his good buy.

Take a man's coat when he has given himself as trust for what a stranger owes. And hold him to his promise when he gives himself as trust for what the people from other lands owe.

Bread a man gets by lying is sweet to him, but later his mouth will be filled with sand.

If a son talks against his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in the time of darkness.