All the streams flow to the sea, but the sea is never full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow.

All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing.

Whenever I wanted something I had seen, I never refused that desire. Instead, I enjoyed everything I did, and this became the reward in what I had undertaken.

For sometimes people who strive to obtain wisdom, knowledge, and equity leave everything as an inheritance to a person who never worked for it. This, too, is pointless and greatly troublesome.

But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.

Never let your mouth cause you to sin and don't proclaim in the presence of the angel, "My promise was a mistake," for why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy what you've undertaken?

The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.

even the sun, it never saw, nor aught did it know, - more quietness, hath this than the other.

All of a man's toil [is] for his mouth-- yet his appetite is never satisfied.

Never be in a hurry to become internally angry, since anger settles down in the lap of fools.

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

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who always does good and who never sins.

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night),

Furthermore, their love, their hate, and their envy have been long lost. Never again will they have a part in what happens on earth.

Always be clothed in white garments, and never let your head lack oil!

So I concluded, "Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless, the wisdom of the poor is rejected his words are never heard."