Ecclesiasticus 40:20
Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vinum et musica lætificant cor : et super utraque dilectio sapientiæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
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Haydock's commentary
Wisdom. Virtue gives more content to the soul than corporal pleasures do to the body. It brings us near to God. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.