Sebastian Münster — Dictionarium Hebraicum / Hebrew Grammar (1524)

Brother Sebastian Münster to the Reader.

Lest any pages after the preliminary letter remain blank, we have added the elegant sentences of the fifty wise students, or as the Hebraism has it, Mishlei (Proverbs), and that in Hebrew only, because the narrowness of the leaf forbade us from placing the Latin translation alongside it.

18. To give a loan is the beginning of love, and its end is strife and hatred.
29. As the earth needs rain, so man needs discipline.
30. Man is like an image, and wisdom is its color or decoration. He is like a tree, and wisdom is its fruit.
37. Justice and innocence make a kingdom stand.
39. It is better to be silent and prudent than talkative and foolish, etc.