"Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding."
- Proverbs 9:6


Proverbs
Chapter 9

1] Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns;
2] She has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table.
3] She has sent out her maidens; she calls from the heights out over the city:
4] "Let whoever is simple turn in here; to him who lacks understanding, I say,
5] Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed!
6] Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding.
7] He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.
8] Reprove not an arrogant man, lest he hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
9] Instruct a wise man, and he becomes still wiser; teach a just man, and he advances in learning.
10] The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11] For by me your days will be multiplied and the years of your life increased."
12] If you are wise, it is to your own advantage; and if you are arrogant, you alone shall bear it.
13] The woman Folly is fickle, she is inane, and knows nothing.
14] She sits at the door of her house upon a seat on the city heights,
15] Calling to passers-by as they go on their straight way:
16] "Let whoever is simple turn in here, or who lacks understanding; for to him I say,
17] Stolen water is sweet, and bread gotten secretly is pleasing!"
18] Little he knows that the shades are there, that in the depths of the nether world are her guests!

Source: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/proverbs/proverb9.htm