If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.
Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs than to confront a fool immersed in folly.
Do not answer fools according to their folly, or you will be a fool yourself.
The bloodthirsty hate the blameless, and they seek the life of the upright.
Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.
The words of their mouths begin in foolishness, and their talk ends in wicked madness;
“Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.