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Do not celebrate the death of an enemy; your own day is not beyond time.
50
When one stronger than you approaches, understand the strength before deciding whether to contend.
51
A fool becoming wise without discipline is as unnatural as a raven turning white or bitter water becoming honey.
52
If you serve before El, enter with purity and do not treat the sacred place as common.
53
Do not fight every strong current merely because you dislike its direction; wisdom chooses the hour of resistance.
54
The appetite of the eye grows with what it receives unless the heart sets a boundary.
55
Do not entrust royal secrets to an uncontrolled mouth.
56
Fire tests wood, a blade tests flesh, and pressure tests the character of an ish.
57
Do not boast merely because you have many children, nor despair merely because you have few; the worth of a house is not counted only by number.
58
The voice of the king carries farther than the voice of the one standing before him; speak with awareness of office.
59
A ruler may shine before the land like the sun, yet even royal brightness does not cancel judgment.
60
Do not take a loan lightly; once you borrow, let repayment remain awake in your mind.
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Reliability is an adornment more valuable than jewelry; lying makes even beautiful speech hateful.
62
Do not allow the child of your own house to become the spy who reveals your private matters to strangers.
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False witness from one raised at your table wounds more deeply than accusation from an enemy.
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Do not behave toward one greater or stronger than you as though rank, power, and consequence do not exist.