Trouvé 166 Résultats pour: wise counsel

• Answer a fool in the terms of his folly for fear he imagine himself wise. (Proverbs 26, 5)

• You see someone who thinks himself wise? More to be hoped for from a fool than from him! (Proverbs 26, 12)

• Learn to be wise, my child, and gladden my heart, that I may have an answer for anyone who insults me. (Proverbs 27, 11)

• A country in revolt throws up many leaders: with one person wise and experienced, you have stability. (Proverbs 28, 2)

• The rich may think himself wise, but the intelligent poor will unmask him. (Proverbs 28, 11)

• Whoever trusts his own wit is a fool, anyone whose ways are wise will be safe. (Proverbs 28, 26)

• Scoffers set a city in ferment, but the wise moderate anger. (Proverbs 29, 8)

• Let someone wise argue with a fool, anger and good humour alike will be wasted. (Proverbs 29, 9)

• The fool blurts out every angry feeling, but the wise subdues and restrains them. (Proverbs 29, 11)

• There are four creatures little on the earth, though they are wisest of the wise: (Proverbs 30, 24)

• The wise have their eyes open, the fool walks in the dark. No doubt! But I know, too, that one fate awaits them both. (Ecclesiastes 2, 14)

• 'Since the fool's fate', I thought to myself, 'will be my fate too, what is the point of my having been wise?' I realised that this too is futile. (Ecclesiastes 2, 15)