“The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better? For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”

“And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)”

“Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.”

“There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins.”

“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man.”

“It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools”

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”