Löydetty 1459 Tulokset: Age

• How fine a thing: wisdom in the aged, and considered advice coming from people of distinction! (Ecclesiasticus 25, 5)

• The crown of the aged is ripe experience, their glory, the fear of the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 6)

• Keep a headstrong daughter under firm control, or, feeling free, she will take advantage of it. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 10)

• For a wound can be bandaged and abuse forgiven, but for the betrayer of a secret there is no hope. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 21)

• The way a fire burns depends on its fuel, a quarrel spreads in proportion to its violence; a man's rage depends on his strength, his fury grows fiercer in proportion to his wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 10)

• Whoever coddles his son will bandage his wounds, his heart will turn over at every cry. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 7)

• Jealousy and anger shorten your days, and worry brings premature old age. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 24)

• If someone is singing, do not ramble on and do not play the sage at the wrong moment. (Ecclesiasticus 32, 4)

• An emerald seal in a golden setting, such are strains of music with a vintage wine. (Ecclesiasticus 32, 6)

• The day your life draws to a close, at the hour of death, then distribute your heritage. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 24)

• To take away a fellow-man's livelihood is to kill him, to deprive an employee of his wages is to shed blood. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 22)

• Rouse your fury, pour out your rage, destroy the opponent, annihilate the enemy. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 6)