Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Mieux vaut peu, avec la justice, Que de grands revenus, avec l'injustice.
KJV
Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
KJV
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
,» juxta Salomonem, «modica acceptio cum justitia, quam multa genimina cum iniquitate [Col. 0706B] (Prov. XVI, 8) ;» et magis eligendum in paupertate nomen bonum quam in divitiis nomen pessimum (Prov. XXII, 1) . Episcopus, qui imitator Apostoli esse cupit, habens victum et vest…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 139 (Migne)
Septembris percepit, proverbii non memor illius: Quanto alcior gradus, tanto gravior fit casus (cf. Prov. XVI, 8) . Certe si voluisset is in cura sibi credita persistere, omnem scrupulum in aliquo sibi umquam obsistentem imperatoris auxilio potuisset expellere, magnamque securita…
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