Löydetty 1025 Tulokset: Rat

• Any evil rather than an evil caused by an enemy! Any vengeance rather than the vengeance of a foe! (Ecclesiasticus 25, 14)

• Honey-tongued to your face, he is lost in admiration at your words; but behind your back he has other things to say, and turns your words into a stumbling-block. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 23)

• A sinner is careless of his guarantor's prosperity, the ungrateful forgets his deliverer. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 16)

• Who is he, so that we can congratulate him, for he has achieved marvels among his fellows? (Ecclesiasticus 31, 9)

• A moderate diet ensures sound sleep, one gets up early, in the best of spirits. Sleeplessness, biliousness and gripe are what the glutton has to endure. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 20)

• Listen to me, my child, do not disregard me, eventually you will see the force of my words. Be moderate in all your activities and illness will never overtake you. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 22)

• Wine gives life if drunk in moderation. What is life worth without wine? It came into being to make people happy. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 27)

• Proof of gratitude is an offering of fine flour, almsgiving a sacrifice of praise. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 2)

• Let fiery wrath swallow up the survivor, and destruction overtake those who oppress your people. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 8)

• One kind of comrade congratulates a friend in prosperity but in time of trouble appears on the other side. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 4)

• Do not consult a woman about her rival, or a coward about war, a merchant about prices, or a buyer about selling, anyone mean about gratitude, or anyone selfish about kindness, a lazy fellow about any sort of work, or a casual worker about finishing a job, an idle servant about a major undertaking-- do not rely on these for any advice. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 11)

• Treat the doctor with the honour that is his due, in consideration of his services; for he too has been created by the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 1)