Sirach · 20
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Quam bonum est arguere, quam irasci, et confitentem in oratione non prohibere !
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Concupiscentia spadonis devirginabit juvenculam :
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sic qui facit per vim judicium iniquum.
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Quam bonum est correptum manifestare pœnitentiam ! sic enim effugies voluntarium peccatum.
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Est tacens qui invenitur sapiens : et est odibilis qui procax est ad loquendum.
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Est tacens non habens sensum loquelæ : et est tacens sciens tempus aptum.
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Homo sapiens tacebit usque ad tempus : lascivus autem et imprudens non servabunt tempus.
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Qui multis utitur verbis lædet animam suam : et qui potestatem sibi sumit injuste, odietur.
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Est processio in malis viro indisciplinato, et est inventio in detrimentum.
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Est datum quod non est utile, et est datum cujus retributio duplex.
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Est propter gloriam minoratio, et est qui ab humilitate levabit caput.
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Est qui multa redimat modico pretio, et restituens ea in septuplum.
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Sapiens in verbis seipsum amabilem facit : gratiæ autem fatuorum effundentur.
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Datus insipientis non erit utilis tibi : oculi enim illius septemplices sunt.
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Exigua dabit, et multa improperabit : et apertio oris illius inflammatio est.
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Hodie fœneratur quis, et cras expetit : odibilis est homo hujusmodi.
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Fatuo non erit amicus, et non erit gratia bonis illius :
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qui enim edunt panem illius, falsæ linguæ sunt. Quoties et quanti irridebunt eum !
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neque enim quod habendum erat directo sensu distribuit ; similiter et quod non erat habendum.
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Lapsus falsæ linguæ quasi qui in pavimento cadens : sic casus malorum festinanter veniet.
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Homo acharis quasi fabula vana, in ore indisciplinatorum assidua erit.
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Ex ore fatui reprobabitur parabola : non enim dicit illam in tempore suo.
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Est qui vetatur peccare præ inopia, et in requie sua stimulabitur.
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Est qui perdet animam suam præ confusione, et ab imprudenti persona perdet eam : personæ autem acceptione perdet se.
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Est qui præ confusione promittit amico, et lucratus est eum inimicum gratis.
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Opprobrium nequam in homine mendacium : et in ore indisciplinatorum assidue erit.
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Potior fur quam assiduitas viri mendacis : perditionem autem ambo hæreditabunt.
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Mores hominum mendacium sine honore, et confusio illorum cum ipsis sine intermissione.
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Sapiens in verbis producet seipsum, et homo prudens placebit magnatis.
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Qui operatur terram suam inaltabit acervum frugum, et qui operatur justitiam, ipse exaltabitur : qui vero placet magnatis effugiet iniquitatem.
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Xenia et dona excæcant oculos judicum, et quasi mutus, in ore avertit correptiones eorum.
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Sapientia absconsa, et thesaurus invisus, quæ utilitas in utrisque ?
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Melior est qui celat insipientiam suam, quam homo qui abscondit sapientiam suam.
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