The wind goes to the south and goes around to the north; around and around it goes, and on its circuit the wind returns.

I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

The end of a matter [is] better than its beginning; {better to be slow to anger than hot-headed}.