A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.