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• Learn to be wise, my child, and gladden my heart, that I may have an answer for anyone who insults me. (Proverbs 27, 11)

• A country in revolt throws up many leaders: with one person wise and experienced, you have stability. (Proverbs 28, 2)

• The rich may think himself wise, but the intelligent poor will unmask him. (Proverbs 28, 11)

• Whoever trusts his own wit is a fool, anyone whose ways are wise will be safe. (Proverbs 28, 26)

• Scoffers set a city in ferment, but the wise moderate anger. (Proverbs 29, 8)

• Let someone wise argue with a fool, anger and good humour alike will be wasted. (Proverbs 29, 9)

• The fool blurts out every angry feeling, but the wise subdues and restrains them. (Proverbs 29, 11)

• There are four creatures little on the earth, though they are wisest of the wise: (Proverbs 30, 24)

• The wise have their eyes open, the fool walks in the dark. No doubt! But I know, too, that one fate awaits them both. (Ecclesiastes 2, 14)

• 'Since the fool's fate', I thought to myself, 'will be my fate too, what is the point of my having been wise?' I realised that this too is futile. (Ecclesiastes 2, 15)

• For there is no lasting memory for the wise or the fool, and in the days to come both will be forgotten; the wise, no less than the fool, must die. (Ecclesiastes 2, 16)

• who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all the work into which I have put my efforts and wisdom under the sun. That is futile too. (Ecclesiastes 2, 19)