lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don't betray the confidence of another;

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.