OF WISDOM IN MAN’S ACTIONS
It is not fit to give credence to every word nor to every suggestion, but every thing is to be weighed according to God, warily and in leisure.
Alas, rather is evil believed of another man than good; we are so weak.
But the perfect believe not easily all things that men tell, for they know man’s infirmity, ready to speak evil and careless enough in words.
Hereto it belongeth also not to believe every man’s words, nor to tell other men what we hear or carelessly believe.
Have thy counsel with a wise man and a man of conscience and seek rather to be taught by thy betters than to follow thine own inventions.
Good life maketh a man wise in God’s sight and expert in many things.
The more meek that a man is and the more subject to God the more wise shall he be in all things—and the more patient.