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Louis Segond 1910
Comme une ville forcée et sans murailles, Ainsi est l'homme qui n'est pas maître de lui-même.
KJV
He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
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hrough failing to obey reason, man sometimes breaks out into unbecoming words: hence it is written ( Prov. 25:28 ): "As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking." But anger, above all, hinders the judgment…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)
, et absque murorum [Col. 0210C] ambitu, ita vir qui non potest in loquendo cohibere spiritum suum (Prov. XXV, 28) .» Sed [Col. 0210D] virtus verae sententiae perditur, quae sub discretionis custodia non profertur. Sequitur: VERS. 3. Tibi soli tacebunt homines, et cum caetero…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 136 (Migne)
icut urbs patens et absque murorum obstaculo, sic qui non potest in loquendo cohibere spiritum suum (Prov. XXV, 28) . Ut dixi vero, vereri debueras, ne cum illo, imitari quem satagis, de te dici audires; [ subaudi debueras] timere etiam, ne et illud de turbine neque per aliquod e…
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