The Presumptuous Man

Tῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδῶν πλησθήσεται θρασυκάρδιος ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν διανοημάτων αὐτοῦ ἀνὴρ ἀγαθός. Διανοήματα νῦν εἶπεν τὰς θείας ὁράσεις καὶ τὰς ἔξεις τῶν ἀρετῶν, ἄσπερ ταῖς ὁδοῖς νοῦ θρασυκαρδίου ἀντέθεικεν· Ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ περισσεύματος τῆς καρδίς λαλεῖ τὰ χείλη, εἴπεν ὁ Κύριος· οὐ γὰρ κακοποιῆσαι, ἀλλ' ἀγαθοποιῆσαι ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἀνὴρ διανοεῖται· ὁ δὲ θρασυκάρδιος ὡς ἄφρων πράττων καὶ λέγων, ἐμπλησθήσεται μαστίγων, καὶ πραγμάτων ἀφαιρέσεως, καὶ τέλος τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἀπολέσει. Ὠριγένης, Ἐκλογαὶ Εἰς Παροιμίας Source: Migne PG 17.193b

The presumptuous man will be filled with his own ways, and the good man with his own thoughts. 1 The thoughts he speaks of here are Divine contemplations and the exercises of virtue, which are opposed to the ways of the presumptuous man. 'From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks,' as the Lord says. 2 For the good man thinks to act not at all wickedly but well. The presumptuous man, however, acts and speaks without sense and he is filled with buffetings, and his deeds are profitless, and finally he destroys his own soul. Origen, On Proverbs, Fragment 1 Prov 14.14 2 Mt 12.34, Lk 6.45