It is not good to eat much honey, and for men to search out their honor is not honor.
Have you found honey? Eat only your fill lest you be satiated and vomit it out.
The glory of God is to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Let a stranger praise you, and not your own mouth; a foreign one, and not your own lips.
For everyone exalting himself will be humbled, and the one humbling himself will be exalted.
How are you able to believe, you who receive glory from one another, and the glory which is from the only God you do not seek?
Really, to boast is not profitable to me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Boasting, I have become foolish. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you, for I lacked nothing of the exceedingly great apostles, even though I am nothing.
doing nothing according to intrigue or self-glory, but in humility, esteeming one another, as being better than themselves;