 | Phenix - 1835 - 312 páginas
...all men: but if these good things agree not with virtue, the wise man ought to contemn and generously to' renounce them. On the contrary, poverty and ignominy are evils; man naturally avoids them: if these evils attack the wise man, it is lawful for him to rid himself from them, but it is not lawful... | |
 | Beaumont Square Chapel, Mile End (LONDON), John Thomas Barber Beaumont - 1840 - 204 páginas
...all men: but if these good things agree not with virtue, the wise man ought to contemn and generously renounce them. On the contrary, poverty and ignominy are evils; man naturally avoids them: if these evils attack the wise man, it is lawful for him to rid himself from them if he can, but it is... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 422 páginas
...is natural to all men; but, if these things agree not with virtue, the wise man ought to contemn and renounce them. On the contrary, poverty and ignominy are evils : man naturally avoids them ; if these evils attack the wise man, it is right that he should rid himself of them, but not by a crime.... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 páginas
...all men ; but, if these things agree uot with virtue, the wise riian ought to contemn and renounced them. On the contrary, poverty and ignominy are evils ; man naturally avoids them; if these evils attack the wise man, it is right that he should rid himself of them, but not by a crime.... | |
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Riches and honors are good; the desire to possess them is natural to all men; but, if these things agree not with virtue, the wise man ought to contemn and renounce them. On the contrary, poverty and ignominy are evils ; man naturally .avoids them; if... 