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My son, do not reject the discipline of Jehovah, and do not loathe his reproof, for those whom Jehovah loves he reproves, Just as a father does a son in whom he delights.

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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

The insight of a man certainly slows down his anger, and it is beauty on his part to pass over transgression.

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The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.

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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvétius De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758)

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