10. Don’t leave your friends or your parents’ friendsand run home to your family when things get rough;Better a nearby friendthan a distant family.
11. Become wise, dear child, and make me happy;then nothing the world throws my way will upset me.
12. A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks;a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
13. Hold tight to collateral on any loan to a stranger;be wary of accepting what a transient has pawned.
14. If you wake your friend in the early morningby shouting “Rise and shine!”It will sound to himmore like a curse than a blessing.
17. You use steel to sharpen steel,and one friend sharpens another.
18. If you care for your orchard, you’ll enjoy its fruit;if you honor your boss, you’ll be honored.
19. Just as water mirrors your face,so your face mirrors your heart.
20. Hell has a voracious appetite,and lust just never quits.
21. The purity of silver and gold is testedby putting them in the fire;The purity of human hearts is testedby giving them a little fame.
22. Pound on a fool all you like—you can’t pound out foolishness.