Here is what I have seen to be good: it is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.

Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy the good life.

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

A good name is better than fine perfume,
and the day of one’s death than the day of one’s birth.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner can destroy much good.