Trouvé 158 Résultats pour: Rich

  • The rich does wrong and takes a high line; the poor is wronged and has to beg for pardon. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 3)

  • If you are useful the rich will exploit you, if you go bankrupt he will desert you. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 4)

  • What peace can there be between hyena and dog? And what peace between rich and poor? (Ecclesiasticus 13, 18)

  • Wild desert donkeys are the prey of lions; so too, the poor is the quarry of the rich. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 19)

  • The proud thinks humility abhorrent; so too, the rich abominates the poor. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 20)

  • When the rich stumbles he is supported by friends; when the poor falls, his friends push him away. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 21)

  • When the rich slips, there are many hands to catch him, if he talks nonsense he is congratulated. The poor slips, and is blamed for it, he may talk good sense, but no room is made for him. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 22)

  • The rich speaks and everyone stops talking, and then they praise his discourse to the skies. The poor speaks and people say, 'Who is this?' and if he stumbles, they trip him up yet more. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 23)

  • In a time of plenty remember times of famine, think of poverty and want when you are rich. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 25)

  • A drunken workman will never grow rich, and one who makes light of small matters will gradually sink. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 1)

  • The sage's knowledge is as rich as the abyss and his advice is like a living spring. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 13)

  • There are three sorts of people my soul hates, and whose existence I consider an outrage: the poor swollen with pride, the rich who is a liar and an adulterous old man who has no sense. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 2)


“Você deve ter sempre prudência e amor. A prudência tem olhos; o amor tem pernas. O amor, como tem pernas, gostaria de correr a Deus. Mas seu impulso de deslanchar na direção dEle é cego e, algumas vezes, pode tropeçar se não for guiado pela prudência, que tem olhos.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina