1. If you do, you will never get rich; if you don't pay attention to small matters, you will gradually ruin yourself.
2. Wine and women make sensible men do foolish things. A man who goes to prostitutes gets more and more careless,
3. and that carelessness will cost him his life. Worms will feed on his decaying body.
4. It is silly to trust people too quickly. If you sin, you are hurting yourself.
5. If wickedness makes you happy, you will be condemned.
6. Avoid idle talk, and you will avoid a lot of trouble.
7. Never repeat what you hear, and you will have no regrets.
8. Don't tell it to your friends or your enemies unless it would be sinful to keep it to yourself.
9. Whoever hears you will take notice of it, and sooner or later will hate you for it.
10. Have you heard a rumour? Let it die with you. Be brave! It won't make you explode.
11. A foolish person trying to keep a secret suffers like a woman in labour.
12. Whenever he hears a secret, it's like an arrow stuck in his leg.
13. If you hear that a friend has done something wrong, ask him about it. Maybe it isn't true. If it is true, he won't do it again.
14. If you hear that a neighbour has said something he shouldn't, ask him about it. Maybe he didn't say it. If he did, he won't say it again.
15. If you hear something bad about a friend, ask him about it. It might be a lie. Don't believe everything you hear.