8. Anyone away from home is like a bird away from its nest.
9. Perfume and fragrant oils make you feel happier, but trouble shatters your peace of mind.
10. Do not forget your friends or your father's friends. If you are in trouble, don't ask a relative for help; a neighbour near by can help you more than relatives who are far away.
11. Be wise, my child, and I will be happy; I will have an answer for anyone who criticizes me.
12. Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.
13. Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts deserves to have his own property held to guarantee payment.
14. You might as well curse your friends as wake them up early in the morning with a loud greeting.
15. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.
16. How can you keep her quiet? Have you ever tried to stop the wind or ever tried to hold a handful of oil?
17. People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.
18. Take care of a fig tree and you will have figs to eat. Servants who take care of their master will be honoured.
19. It is your own face that you see reflected in the water and it is your own self that you see in your heart.
20. Human desires are like the world of the dead — there is always room for more.
21. Fire tests gold and silver; a person's reputation can also be tested.
22. Even if you beat fools until they're half dead, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them.
23. Look after your sheep and cattle as carefully as you can,
24. because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last for ever.
25. You cut the hay and then cut the grass on the hillsides while the next crop of hay is growing.