A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules of Life from the Wise of All AgesJosephus Nelson Larned Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901 - 499 páginas |
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... suffering poverty had been common in the land . Thus even the omissions of the treatise cannot lessen the astonishment with which we find such conceptions of conduct and character matured at so early a day . From Ptah - hotep we pass a ...
... suffering poverty had been common in the land . Thus even the omissions of the treatise cannot lessen the astonishment with which we find such conceptions of conduct and character matured at so early a day . From Ptah - hotep we pass a ...
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... before . The whole body suffers . That which is good becomes evil ; taste completely disappears . Old age makes a man altogether miserable ; the nose is stopped up , breath- • ing no more from exhaustion . Standing or sitting.
... before . The whole body suffers . That which is good becomes evil ; taste completely disappears . Old age makes a man altogether miserable ; the nose is stopped up , breath- • ing no more from exhaustion . Standing or sitting.
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... vowest . Better is it that thou shouldest not vow , than that thou shouldest vow and not pay . Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin ; neither say thou before the angel , that it was an error : wherefore should God be angry at thy.
... vowest . Better is it that thou shouldest not vow , than that thou shouldest vow and not pay . Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin ; neither say thou before the angel , that it was an error : wherefore should God be angry at thy.
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... suffer him to sleep . There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun , namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt : and those riches perish by evil adventure ; and if he hath begotten a son , there is nothing in his ...
... suffer him to sleep . There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun , namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt : and those riches perish by evil adventure ; and if he hath begotten a son , there is nothing in his ...
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... suffer for thy righteous acts , Ne'er give thy mind to aught but honest gain . ( iv . 171. ) So act in thy brief passage through this world That thy apparel , speech , and inner store Of knowledge be adapted to thy age , Thy occupation ...
... suffer for thy righteous acts , Ne'er give thy mind to aught but honest gain . ( iv . 171. ) So act in thy brief passage through this world That thy apparel , speech , and inner store Of knowledge be adapted to thy age , Thy occupation ...
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advice AHIKAR anger Aristotle avoid better blessing body boke Book of Proverbs born Buddhism called century Confucius counsel courage death deeds delight desire despise DHAMMAPADA Divinity doth duty English Epictetus evil faults fear fool fortune give Goethe grace greatest habit hand happy hath heaven Hesiod honest honour keep king knowledge labour lest let thy live look Lord MADAME SWETCHINE man's manner Marcus Aurelius Max Müller mean mind moral nature ness never pain passion person philosopher pleasure poor precepts Ptah-hotep Pythagoras Resolved riches rules seek shame speak spirit Stageira T. W. Rhys Davids teaching temper Ten Precepts thee thine things Thomas à Kempis thou art thou canst thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thought thy father thy heart thy soul thyself tion tongue translation truth virtue wife wisdom wise words
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Página 49 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Página 132 - Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil : but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Página 462 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Página 61 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Página 41 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Página 51 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise : Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 131 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council ; but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 29 - Foolish soul! What act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? /A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
Página 42 - Thou shalt not -covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Página 281 - t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man ; And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine...