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• My reflections then turned to wisdom, stupidity and folly. For instance, what can the successor of a king do? What has been done already. (Ecclesiastes 2, 12)

• More is to be gained from wisdom than from folly, just as one gains more from light than from darkness; this, of course, I see: (Ecclesiastes 2, 13)

• who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all the work into which I have put my efforts and wisdom under the sun. That is futile too. (Ecclesiastes 2, 19)

• Wisdom, knowledge and joy, God gives to those who please him, but on the sinner he lays the task of gathering and storing up for someone else who is pleasing to him. This too is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)

• Do not ask why the past was better than the present, for this is not a question prompted by wisdom. (Ecclesiastes 7, 10)

• Wisdom is as good as a legacy, profitable to those who enjoy the light of the sun. (Ecclesiastes 7, 11)

• For as money protects, so does wisdom, and the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom bestows life on those who possess her. (Ecclesiastes 7, 12)

• Wisdom makes the wise stronger than a dozen governors in a city. (Ecclesiastes 7, 19)

• Thanks to wisdom, I have found all this to be true; I resolved to be wise, but this was beyond my reach! (Ecclesiastes 7, 23)

• But I have reached the point where, having learnt, explored and investigated wisdom and reflection, I recognise evil as being a form of madness, and folly as something stupid. (Ecclesiastes 7, 25)

• Who compares with the sage? Who else knows how to explain things? Wisdom lights up the face, enlivening a grim expression. (Ecclesiastes 8, 1)

• Having applied myself to acquiring wisdom and to observing the activity taking place in the world -- for day and night our eyes enjoy no rest- (Ecclesiastes 8, 16)