A wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.

Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is as a city broken down, without walls.

A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.