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Louis Segond 1910
C'est une gloire pour l'homme de s'abstenir des querelles, Mais tout insensé se livre à l'emportement.
KJV
[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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inct from pride. Therefore reviling does not arise from anger. Objection 2: Further, it is written ( Prov. 20:3 ): "All fools are meddling with revilings [Douay: 'reproaches']." Now folly is a vice opposed to wisdom, as stated above ( Q[46], A[1] ); whereas anger is opposed to me…
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