Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of
What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.