The wise use their eyes, but the fool walks in darkness. I also perceived that the same outcome affects them all.

For neither the wise nor the fool will be long remembered, since in days to come everything will be forgotten. The wise man dies the same way as the fool, does he not?

For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.

Even if he lives a thousand years twice over without experiencing the best aren't all of them going to the same place?

Never ask "Why does the past seem so much better than now?" because this question does not come from wisdom.

Everyone shares the same experience: a single event affects the righteous, the wicked, the good, the clean, the unclean, whoever sacrifices, and whoever does not sacrifice. As it is with the good person, so also it is with the sinner; as it is with someone who takes an oath, so also it is with someone who fears taking an oath.