16 If you repeat secrets that have been told to you, you are destroying the confidence others have in you, and you will never have a close friend.
17 Respect your friends, and keep faith with them. If you do betray a friend's confidence, you may as well forget you have a friend.
18 You have killed that friendship just as surely as if you had taken a weapon and killed an enemy.
19 Your friend is gone. You can no more get him back than you can get a bird to come back to your hand once you let it go.
20 Don't bother going after him. It's too late. He is gone, like a deer escaped from a trap.
21 Wounds can be bandaged and insults can be forgiven, but if you betray a confidence, it is hopeless.
22 When someone starts winking at you, he has something bad in mind, and nothing can stop him from going through with it.