37. Treat with men about business only at fit times. Whisper not in company.
38. Make no injurious comparisons; and if any of the company be commended for a brave or virtuous action, commend not another immediately upon it for a similar action.
39. Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth of it. In conversing of what you have heard, do not always name your author. Discover not a secret.
40. Be not curious to know the affairs of others; neither approach those who are speaking in private.
41. Undertake not what you cannot perform; but be careful to keep your promises.
42. Be not tedious in discourse; make not many digressions, nor repeat the same thing often.
43. Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
44. Eat not with greediness; lean not on the table.
45. Set not yourself at the upper end of the table; but if the master of the house will have it so, contend not, lest you trouble the company.