Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who will no longer take advice.

One can indeed come out of prison to reign, even though born poor in the kingdom.

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

For what advantage have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves before the living?

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

So I said, “Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.”