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  • the latter had got wind of it and, sending a single general against them, had fought a campaign in which they inflicted heavy casualties, carried their women and children away into captivity, pillaged their goods, subdued their country, tore down their fortresses and reduced them to a slavery lasting to the present day; (1 Maccabees 8, 10)

  • Whoever misgoverns a house inherits the wind, and the fool becomes slave to the wise. (Proverbs 11, 29)

  • Clouds and wind, but no rain: such is anyone whose promises are princely but never kept. (Proverbs 25, 14)

  • The north wind begets the rain, and a backbiting tongue, black looks. (Proverbs 25, 23)

  • whoever can restrain her, can restrain the wind, and take a firm hold on grease. (Proverbs 27, 16)

  • Who has mounted to the heavens, then come down again? Who has gathered the wind in the clasp of his hand? Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak? Who has set all the ends of the earth firm? What is his name? What is his child's name? Do you know? (Proverbs 30, 4)

  • Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns and turns again; then back to its circling goes the wind. (Ecclesiastes 1, 6)

  • I have seen everything that is done under the sun: how futile it all is, mere chasing after the wind! (Ecclesiastes 1, 14)

  • I have applied myself to understanding philosophy and science, stupidity and folly, and I now realise that all this too is chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 1, 17)

  • I then reflected on all that my hands had achieved and all the effort I had put into its achieving. What futility it all was, what chasing after the wind! There is nothing to be gained under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2, 11)

  • Life I have come to hate, for what is done under the sun disgusts me, since all is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 17)

  • Wisdom, knowledge and joy, God gives to those who please him, but on the sinner he lays the task of gathering and storing up for someone else who is pleasing to him. This too is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)


“É sempre necessário ir para a frente, nunca para trás, na vida espiritual. O barco que pára em vez de ir adiante é empurrado para trás pelo vento.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina