Fondare 55 Risultati per: Folly

• As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool reverts to his folly. (Proverbs 26, 11)

• Pound a fool in a mortar, among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him. (Proverbs 27, 22)

• 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 decided to hand my body over to drinking wine, my mind still guiding me in wisdom; I resolved to embrace folly, to discover the best way for people to spend their days under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2, 3)

• My reflections then turned to wisdom, stupidity and folly. For instance, what can the successor of a king do? What has been done already. (Ecclesiastes 2, 12)

• More is to be gained from wisdom than from folly, just as one gains more from light than from darkness; this, of course, I see: (Ecclesiastes 2, 13)

• From too much worrying comes illusion, from too much talking, the accents of folly. (Ecclesiastes 5, 2)

• But I have reached the point where, having learnt, explored and investigated wisdom and reflection, I recognise evil as being a form of madness, and folly as something stupid. (Ecclesiastes 7, 25)

• This is another evil among those occurring under the sun: that there should be the same fate for everyone. The human heart, however, is full of wickedness; folly lurks in our hearts throughout our lives, until we end among the dead. (Ecclesiastes 9, 3)

• folly promoted to the top and the rich taking the lowest place. (Ecclesiastes 10, 6)

• his words have their origin in stupidity and their ending in treacherous folly. (Ecclesiastes 10, 13)

• For, by ignoring the path of Wisdom, not only did they suffer the loss of not knowing the good, but they left the world a memorial to their folly, so that their offences could not pass unnoticed. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 8)