Fondare 364 Risultati per: Living Beings
The dead, it seemed, were more to be envied than the living; (Ecclesiastes 4, 2)
Better a visit paid where men mourn, than where they feast; it will put thee in mind of the end that awaits us all, admonish the living with the foreknowledge of death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 3)
Were but immortality the prize! But no, hope of that is none; living dog is better off than dead lion. (Ecclesiastes 9, 4)
Their case is pitiable indeed, who make light of true wisdom and of ordered living; vain their hope, profitless their toil, barren their achievement. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 11)
To every living thing its own breed, to every beast its own moods; the winds✻ rage, and men think deep thoughts; the plants keep their several kinds, and each root has its own virtue; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 20)
kindly, gracious, steadfast, proof against all error and all solicitude. Nothing is beyond its power, nothing hidden from its view, and such capacity has it that it can pervade the minds of all living men; so pure and subtle an essence is thought. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 23)
If thy desire be for honest living, man’s excellences are the fruit she labours to produce; temperance and prudence she teaches, justice and fortitude, and what in life avails man more? (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 7)
to order the world by a law of right living and of just dealing, and give true award in the honest purpose of his heart. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 3)
Thou who once, into defiling blood, hadst troubled the sources of a living stream, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 7)
But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
and his subjects, living far away, so that they could not do obeisance to him in person, would have his present image set up in their view, eager to pay his absent royalty their adulation. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
Nor were they content with these false notions of God’s nature; living in a world besieged by doubt, they misnamed its innumerable disorders a state of peace. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 22)
