Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Tout homme prudent agit avec connaissance, Mais l'insensé fait étalage de folie.
KJV
Every prudent [man] dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly.
Every prudent [man] dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly.
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Summa Theologica
subtlety'] to little ones." Therefore craftiness is not a sin. Objection 2: Further, it is written ( Prov. 13:16 ): "The crafty [Douay: 'prudent'] man doth all things with counsel." Therefore, he does so either for a good or for an evil end. If for a good end, there is no sin see…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 102 (Migne)
m consilio agas, Scriptura te divina per Salomonem admonet, dicens: Astutus omnia agit cum consilio (Prov. XIII, 16) ; et Jesus filius Sirach ait: Fili, sine consilio nihil facias (Eccli. XXXII, 24) . Et ut sapienter et cum disciplina et cum consilio semper vivas, idem te Salomon…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
autem in nequitia non illa intelligenda est, de qua Salomon dicit: Astutus omnia agit cum consilio (Prov. XIII, 16) , sed astutia deceptionis. Et dicitur nequitia, quasi non aequitas. Sequitur: Plenos invidia. Invidia dicta est a contuendo alterius felicitatem. Habet autem sub…
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