A good reputation is better than precious perfume; likewise, the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.

I thought to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.

If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.