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The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.

God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.

All this I tested by wisdom and I said, "I am determined to be wise"- but this was beyond me.

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

while I was still searching but not finding- I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

This only have I found: God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes."

So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success.

Words from a wise man's mouth are gracious, but a fool is consumed by his own lips.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.