The tongue has the power of life and death.

A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.