I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die!

Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction.

For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living?

The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.