"Quarrel not with a great man, lest you be compelled to give way, or with a stronger, lest you fall into his hands." ~~ Ben Sira 8:1
"Godfearingness will keep you far from sin." ~~ Ben Sira 1:21
"Keep sin at a distance and it will turn aside from you!" ~~ Ben Sira 7:2
"Who respects the elderly is as if he respects the Lord." ~~ Alphabet of Ben Sira
"If you will remember the end of all things, you will cease hating." ~~ Ben Sira
"Do not dishonor the old: we shall all be numbered among them." ~~ Ben Sira
"Without experience there can be little wisdom." ~~ Ben Sira
"Who keeps a secret is a bosom friend." ~~ Ben Sira 31:2
"A man that cleanses himself after touching a corpse, and then touches it again, of what avail will his cleaning be? So with a man who fasts for his sins and then repeats them." ~~ Ben Sira 34:25,26
"Lend a man money when he needs it and pay back a loan yourself in time!" ~~ Ben Sira 29:2
"Let not your hand be open wide to take, and clenched at a time of giving back! " ~~ Ben Sira 4:13
"Better a pauper sound and sober than a rich man sick and sorry." ~~ Ben Sira 30:14
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