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• And therewith I applied my mind to a new study; what meant wisdom and learning, what meant ignorance and folly? And I found that this too was labour lost; (Ecclesiastes 1, 17)

• much wisdom, much woe; who adds to learning, adds to the load we bear. (Ecclesiastes 1, 18)

• how I resolved at last to deny myself the comfort of wine, wisdom now all my quest, folly disowned? For I could not rest until I knew where man’s true good lay, what was his life’s true task, here under the sun.✻ (Ecclesiastes 2, 3)

• Never had Jerusalem known such wealth; yet in the midst of it, wisdom never left my side. (Ecclesiastes 2, 9)

• Then my mind went back to the thought of wisdom, of ignorance, too, and folly. What (thought I), should mortal king strive to imitate the sovereign power that made him?✻ (Ecclesiastes 2, 12)

• I saw, indeed, that wisdom differed from folly as light from darkness; (Ecclesiastes 2, 13)

• Why then (I said to myself), if fool and I must come to the same end at last, was not I the fool, that toiled to achieve wisdom more than he? So my thoughts ran, and I found labour lost, here too. (Ecclesiastes 2, 15)

• Who wins God’s favour, has wisdom and skill for his reward, and pleasure too; it is the sinner that is doomed to hardship and to thankless care, hoarding and scraping, and all to enrich some heir God loves better! For him frustration, for him the labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)

• Great worth has wisdom matched with good endowment; more advantage it shall bring thee than all the rest, here under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 7, 12)

• Wealth befriends whom wisdom befriends; better still, who learns wisdom wins life. (Ecclesiastes 7, 13)

• Wisdom is a surer ally than ten city magistrates; (Ecclesiastes 7, 20)

• Thus, by the touchstone of my wisdom, I would test all things; Wisdom, cried I, I must have; yet all the while she withdrew from me, (Ecclesiastes 7, 24)