Talált 19150 Eredmények: Or

• In the greatest number of the wise lies the world's salvation, in a sagacious king the stability of a people. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 24)

• Learn, therefore, from my words; the gain will be yours. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 25)

• I too am mortal like everyone else, a descendant of the first man formed from the earth. I was modelled in flesh inside a mother's womb, (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 1)

• where, for ten months, in blood I acquired substance -- the result of virile seed and pleasure, sleep's companion. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 2)

• I too, when I was born, drew in the common air, I fell on the same ground that bears us all, and crying was the first sound I made, like everyone else. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 3)

• for there is only one way into life, and one way out of it. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 6)

• I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones; compared with her, I held riches as nothing. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 8)

• I reckoned no precious stone to be her equal, for compared with her, all gold is a pinch of sand, and beside her, silver ranks as mud. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 9)

• I loved her more than health or beauty, preferred her to the light, since her radiance never sleeps. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 10)

• For she is to human beings an inexhaustible treasure, and those who acquire this win God's friendship, commended to him by the gifts of instruction. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 14)

• May God grant me to speak as he would wish and conceive thoughts worthy of the gifts I have received, since he is both guide to Wisdom and director of sages; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 15)

• for we are in his hand, yes, ourselves and our sayings, and all intellectual and all practical knowledge. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 16)