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Louis Segond 1910
Celui qui veille sur sa bouche et sur sa langue Préserve son âme des angoisses.
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Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 103 (Migne)
animarum. Hinc Salomon ait: Qui custodit os suum et linguam suam, custodit ab angustiis animam suam (Prov. XXI, 23) . Quanto igitur quisque sub silentio deprimit se, tanto compunctionis aciem in coelo figit; et quanto taciturnitatis freno constringit linguam, tanto ad coelestia e…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)
ic perfectus est vir; Qui enim custodit os suum et linguam suam, custodit ab angustiis animam suam (Prov. XXI, 23) . Paulus: Fornicatio, inquit, et omnis immunditia aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos, aut turpitudo, [Col. 0250D] aut stultiloquium, aut sc…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
d exhaurienda [Col. 0537C] bona, et miscenda mala. Qui custodit linguam suam, custodit animam suam (Prov. XXI, 23) ; quoniam mors et vita in potestate linguae est (Prov. XVIII, 21) . Qui linguam suam et ventrem custodire non potest, monachus non est. Cujus peccatum quisquis sequ…
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