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• I at least (so I flattered myself) have risen above the rest; a king so wise never reigned at Jerusalem;✻ here is a mind has reflected much, and much learned. (Ecclesiastes 1, 16)

• the wise man had eyes in his head, while the fool went his way benighted; but the ending of them? In their ending both were alike. (Ecclesiastes 2, 14)

• Endlessly forgotten, wise man and fool alike, since to-morrow’s memory will be no longer than yesterday’s; wise man and fool alike doomed to death. (Ecclesiastes 2, 16)

• An heir, would he be wise man or fool? None could tell; but his would be the possession of all I had toiled for so hard, schemed for so anxiously; could there be frustration worse than this? (Ecclesiastes 2, 19)

• There is more hope for a wise servant✻ that is in hard straits, than for a dotard king that foresight has none. (Ecclesiastes 4, 13)

• Is wise man more to be envied than fool? Where should a man go when he is poor, save where he can find a livelihood?✻ (Ecclesiastes 6, 8)

• Sadness, a home for the wise man’s thoughts, mirth for the fool’s. (Ecclesiastes 7, 5)

• Better receive a wise man’s rebuke, than hear thy praises sung by fools. (Ecclesiastes 7, 6)

• Oppression bewilders even a wise man’s wits, and undermines his courage.✻ (Ecclesiastes 7, 8)

• Why then, do not set too much store by piety, nor play the wise man to excess, if thou wouldst not be bewildered over thy lot. (Ecclesiastes 7, 17)

• Here is a mind that has passed the whole world of things in review, examining everything, weighing everything, so as to have a wise estimation of them, eager to understand the fool’s rebelliousness, the false calculations of rash souls. (Ecclesiastes 7, 26)

• The wise man, there is none like him. O for one who should read the riddle! (Ecclesiastes 7, 31)