I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have acquired wisdom more than all they that have been before me over Jerusalem; and my heart hath seen much of wisdom and knowledge.

And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?

Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;

and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.

Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men that are in a city.

and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.

The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success.