ible. Be faithful to your pledged covenants and keep your oaths.

_Traditions_. A man who keeps not his word has no religion.

A true man's word is like an oath.

Be truthful in what you say, faithful to your promise, and careful of
what is entrusted to you.

A pledged word is as if you had made the gift.

_Proverbs_. A true man keeps his promise.

A pledged word has the same value as a debt.

The promise of a true man is a greater obligation than a debt.

That man is a hypocrite who prays and fasts, but is untruthful in what
he says, false to his word, and unfaithful in discharging a trust.

TRUTHFULNESS TO SECRETS

To keep a secret is a divine law.

A secret is a trust, and to betray it is perfidy.

The least of all noble traits is to keep a secret, and the greatest is
to forget it.

He controls himself most who hides a secret from his friends.

When a secret is known to more than two, it becomes public.

He who seeks a place to hide his secret reveals it.

Walls have ears.

It is unwise to confide a secret to two tongues and four ears.

Your secret is your captive, betray it and you become its captive.

A man should be a tomb in which a secret is deposited.

If you keep your secret you are safe, and it will be to your sorrow if
you reveal it.

Hearts are the depositaries of secrets, lips their locks, and tongues
their keys.

The hearts of the wise are the fortresses of secrets.

DECEIT

Deceit does more harm to the deceitful than to the deceived.

If a man commit these three things they will rise against him in
judgment and punishment--aggression, perfidy, and deceit.

To be true to the perfidious is perfidy, and to deceive the deceitful
is lawful.

In deceiving your neighbour be more wary than when he is trying to
deceive you.

When one would deceive you, and you feign to be deceived, you have
deceived him.

He who would deceive one who cannot be deceived is only deceiving
himself.

He who allows himself to be deceived by what his enemy says is the
greatest enemy to himself.

A wise man neither deceives nor is deceived.

If a man believe in a stone it will do him good.

Self-deception is one of the forms of folly.

Most men think well of themselves, and this is self-delusion.

Vain desires are rarely realised, but they may give comfort in sorrow
or pleasure in empty hope.

EXERTION, PERSEVERANCE, SUCCESS

A man obtains only what he strives for.

He who seeks