Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Ne réponds pas à l'insensé selon sa folie, De peur que tu ne lui ressembles toi-même.
KJV
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
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deration, i.e. as a duty of charity, and not through lust for one's own honor. Hence it is written ( Prov. 26:4 ): "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like him." Reply to Objection 2: When one man prevents another from being reviled there is not the danger of…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 126 (Migne)
suam, ne efficiaris ei similis: et responde stulto juxta stultitiam suam, ne sibi sapiens videatur (Prov. XXVI, 4, 5) , distuli tibi quae tunc poteram respondere. Et de his quae mihi mandasti, tibi mox remandavi, ut [Col. 0301A] quoniam a confratribus nostris, quibus ea ostendis…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 130 (Migne)
i respondeat juxta stultitiam suam, dicente Scriptura: «Non respondeas stulto juxta stultitiam suam (Prov. XXVI, 4) ;» non bene vivit qui non recte credit. Nihil mali vult qui fidelis est. Si quis fidelis est, videat ne falsa loquatur, aut cuiquam insidias ponat. Fidelis homo sem…
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