Be ye, therefore, wise as serpents and simple as doves. (Matt. x. 16.)
Attend that you may know prudence. (Prov. iv. 1.)
Let thy eyelids go before thy steps. (Prov. iv. 25.)
My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done. Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumbling-block to thy soul. And beware of thy own children, and take need of them of thy household. In every work of thine regard thy soul in faith: for this is the keeping of the commandments. (Ecclus. xxxii. 24-27.)
Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as please them. (Ecclus. viii. 20.)
Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need. (Ecclus. viii. 11, 12.)
Be prudent and watch in prayers. (1 Peter iv. 7.)
Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore solicitous for to-morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. (Matt. vi. 33, 34.)
Justice
DO NOT any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure. (Prov. xx. 23.)
All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. (Matt. vii. 12.)
See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another. (Tob. iv. 16.)
For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? (Matt. xvi. 26.)
This is the will of God . . . that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified. (1 Thess. iv. 3, 6.)
