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Louis Segond 1910
Mieux vaut être humble avec les humbles Que de partager le butin avec les orgueilleux.
KJV
Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)
tumelia (Prov. XI, 2) . Item: Melius est humiliari cum mitibus, quam dividere spolia cum superbis (Prov. XVI, 19) . Jesus filius Sirach: Odibilis coram Deo et hominibus superbia. Initium superbiae hominis, apostatare a Deo. Initium peccati est omnis superbia. Qui tetigerit pice…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 185 (Migne)
tanquam ab immunditiis, sciens melius esse humiliari cum mitibus, quam dividere spolia cum superbis (Prov. XVI, 19) . Loquensque secum consolatur [Col. 0012B] se, et ait: Pars mea Dominus, dixit anima mea: propterea exspectabo eum. Bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum, animae qu…
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