Holy Scripture
Proverbs 31:3
A church father on this verse
“Do not give your substance to women. The sense of the letter is clear, but we are also forbidden to contaminate the substance of our virtues with the corruptions of vices.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.
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1My words have been spoken by God—the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed.
2What will you keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to you: what? son of my womb? what? * son of my vows?
— Proverbs 31:3 —
4Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:
5lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and be not able to judge the poor rightly.