If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
The bloodthirsty hate a person of integrity and seek to kill the upright.
Mockers stir up a city, but the wise turn away anger.
At the beginning their words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness—
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.