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• Learning is a fountain of life to one who possesses it. The doctrine of the foolish is senseless. (Proverbs 16, 22)

• A foolish one is born into his own disgrace. But his father will not rejoice in one who is senseless. (Proverbs 17, 21)

• For, while the just were still holding grief in their hands and weeping at the tombs of the dead, these others took upon themselves another senseless thought, and they cast out the legislators and pursued them as if they were fugitives. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 3)

• Substance is senseless for a greedy and stingy man. And what would a spiteful man do with gold? (Ecclesiasticus 14, 3)

• Doctrine to the senseless is like fetters on the feet, and like chains on the right hand. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 22)

• A senseless man will gaze through a window into the house. But a man who has been well-taught will stand outside. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 26)

• The lips of the imprudent will describe senseless things. But the words of the prudent will be weighed on a balance. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 28)

• Whoever explains wisdom to the senseless is like one speaking to a sleeping person. And at the end of the explanation, he says: “Who is this?” (Ecclesiasticus 22, 9)

• You should not talk at length with the foolish, and you should not go with the senseless. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 14)

• so also a timid heart, and the thoughts of the senseless, will not withstand the forcefulness of fear. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 22)

• Take the desire of the body from me, and do not allow sexual desire to take hold of me, and do not permit an irreverent and senseless mind within me. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 6)

• an arrogant pauper, a wealthy liar, a foolish and senseless elder. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 4)