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Louis Segond 1910
Ne sois pas méchant à l'excès, et ne sois pas insensé: pourquoi mourrais-tu avant ton temps?
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Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 182 (Migne)
e et ipsi justitiae, ut justa sit, temperantia modum imponit. Noli nimium esse justus, ait Sapiens (Eccl. VII, 17) , ostendens per hoc minime approbandam justitiam, quae temperantiae moderamine non frenetur. Quid quod et ipsa sapientia hoc temperantiae frenum non respuit; dicent…
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