9. Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
10. Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
11. Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
12. Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.
13. For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.
14. Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
15. In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.