A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]

Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Without vision a people perishes.