The thoughts of the diligent lead only to plenty; but of everyone that is hasty, only to want.

He who learns from instruction and correction is on the [right] path of life [and for others his example is a path toward wisdom and blessing],
But he who ignores and refuses correction goes off course [and for others his example is a path toward sin and ruin].

For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Only by pride comes strife: but with the well advised is wisdom.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

There is one who scatters and yet increases; but one who withholds just due comes only to poverty.

The lips of truth shall be established forever, but only while I wink is a lying tongue.

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.

My son, cease to hear the discipline, only to stray from the words of knowledge.