18. When you sit in the midst of great men, remember your father and mother.
19. Otherwise, God may forget you, when you are in their sight, and then you would be repeatedly ridiculed and would suffer disgrace, and you might wish that you had never been born, and you might curse the day of your nativity.
20. The man who is accustomed to disgraceful words will not accept instruction, all the days of his life.
21. Two kinds of persons abound in sins, and a third adds wrath and perdition.
22. A desirous soul is like a burning fire, it will not be quenched, until it devours something.
23. And a man who is wicked in the desires of his flesh will not desist until he has kindled a fire.
24. To a man of fornication, all bread is sweet; he will not tire of transgression, to the very end.
25. Every man who transgresses his own bed has contempt for his own soul. And so he says: "Who can see me?