Ecclesiastes:2:12-16

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* Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly ; For what can the man do who succeeds the king ?-- Only what he has already done . * Then I saw that wisdom excels folly As light excels darkness . * The wise man 's eyes are in his head , But the fool walks in darkness . Yet I myself perceived That the same event happens to them all . * So I said in my heart , "As it happens to the fool , It also happens to me , And why was I then more wise ?" Then I said in my heart , "This also is vanity ." * For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever , Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come . And how does a wise man die ? As the fool !

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