Trouvé 602 Résultats pour: Good Sense

• Tell me, what is man, what worth is his, what power has he for good or ill? (Ecclesiasticus 18, 7)

• Wine and women, what a trap for the loyalty of the wise, how hard a test of good sense! (Ecclesiasticus 19, 2)

• Yet a man’s looks betray him; a man of good sense will make himself known to thee at first meeting; (Ecclesiasticus 19, 26)

• Reproof there is that no good brings, as the event shews; the mistaken reproof that anger prompts in a quarrel. And a man may shew prudence by holding his tongue. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 28)

• What use to make a good bargain, if thou must pay for it sevenfold? (Ecclesiasticus 20, 12)

• Some for very shame have courted their own ruin, resolved, though that opinion were worthless enough, to sacrifice themselves for another’s good opinion. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 24)

• Listening to a fool is like journeying with a heavy pack; there is no pleasing the ear, where sense is none. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 19)

• A fool takes refuge in wise talk as a man takes shelter in a ruin; learning without sense, that cannot abide scrutiny. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 21)

• The tale-bearer is his own enemy, shunned by all; court his friendship, and thou wilt court hatred; shut lips and calm judgement shall bring thee a good name. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 31)

• What ill names shall we hurl at the sluggard? Stone from the sewers, that has no man’s good word; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 1)

• Shame the father shall have, shame the husband; fit company for sinners, she will have no good word from either of these. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 5)

• Keep faith with a friend when his purse is empty, thou shalt have joy of his good fortune; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 28)