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Louis Segond 1910
Mieux vaut entendre la réprimande du sage que d'entendre le chant des insensés.
KJV
[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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s not a useful good. On the contrary, The wise man seeks only that which is useful. But according to Eccles. 7:5, "the heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth." Therefore sorrow is useful. I answer that, A twofold movement of the…
Thomas Aquinas
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ther, virtue "observes the mean according as a wise man decides" (Ethic. ii, 6). Now it is written ( Eccles. 7:5 ): "The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth": wherefore "it belongs to a virtuous man to be most wary of pleasure…
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