Ecclesiastes 7:8 (WEB)
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Fathers and councils · 1
“Thus I shut up in the bottom of my heart the pangs which I suffered on account of the calumnies directed against me, for calumny humbles a man, and calumny makes a poor man giddy.” — editor's note: cf. ἡ συκοφαντία περιφέρει σοφόν. Eccles. vii. 8, LXX. Calumnia conturbat sapientem et perdet robur cordis illius. Vulg.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.