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  • Like one who binds the stone in the sling is he who gives honor to a fool. (Proverbs 26, 8)

  • A man's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. (Proverbs 29, 23)

  • a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction. (Ecclesiastes 6, 2)

  • Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. (Ecclesiastes 10, 1)

  • Even if they live long they will be held of no account, and finally their old age will be without honor. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 17)

  • "This is the man whom we once held in derision and made a byword of reproach -- we fools! We thought that his life was madness and that his end was without honor. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 4)

  • Therefore if you delight in thrones and scepters, O monarchs over the peoples, honor wisdom, that you may reign for ever. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 21)

  • Because of her I shall have glory among the multitudes and honor in the presence of the elders, though I am young. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 10)

  • and when he was in prison she did not leave him, until she brought him the scepter of a kingdom and authority over his masters. Those who accused him she showed to be false, and she gave him everlasting honor. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 14)

  • When men could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)

  • For when a potter kneads the soft earth and laboriously molds each vessel for our service, he fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that serve clean uses and those for contrary uses, making all in like manner; but which shall be the use of each of these the worker in clay decides. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)

  • For this man, more than all others, knows that he sins when he makes from earthy matter fragile vessels and graven images. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 13)


A humildade e a caridade são as “cordas mestras”. Todas as outras virtudes dependem delas. Uma é a mais baixa; a outra é a mais alta. ( P.e Pio ) São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina