Elisha ben Avuyah says: One who studies [as] a child, to what is he compared? To ink written on new paper. And one who studies [as] an elder, to what is he compared? To ink written on erased paper.  R' Yose bar Yehudah, leader of Kfar HaBavli, says: One who learns from children, to what is he compared? To one who eats acrid grapes and drinks wine from the press. And one who learns from elders, to what is he compared? To one who eats ripe grapes and drinks aged wine.  Rebbi says: Do not look at the vessel, rather [look] at what it contains, [for] there can be a new [vessel] containing old [wine] and an old [vessel] which lacks even new [wine].

Rabbi Elazar HaKappar says: Jealousy, lust, and honor remove a man from the world.

He used to say: The born shall die, the dead shall be resurrected, and the living shall be judged. To know, to make known, and to understand that He is God, He is the Molder, He is the Creator, He is the Discerner, He is the Judge, He is [the] Witness, He is [the] Litigant, and He will ultimately pass judgment. Blessed is He, for before Him is neither iniquity, nor forgetfulness, nor fa-voritism, nor acceptance of bribes, for everything is His.  Know that everything is according to the accounting. And do not let your [evil] inclination assure you that the grave is a refuge for you, for against your will you are formed, and against your will you are born, and against your will you live, and against your will you die, and against your will you are destined to give judgment and accounting before the King Who reigns over kings, the Holy One, Blessed is He.

With ten Divine Statements the world was created. And what does this come to teach? Is it not evident that it could have been created with one Divine Statement? Rather, [it is] to hold liable the wicked who destroy the world that was created with ten Di-vine Statements, and to bestow optimal reward upon the righteous who sustain the world that was created with ten Divine Statements.