Whatever my eyes desired, I did not withhold from them. I did withhold my heart from pleasure, because my heart rejoiced in all my labor and pleasure was my reward for all my labor. Then I looked on all the deeds that my hands had accomplished, and on the labor that I had done, but again, everything was meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was no profit under the sun in it. Then I turned to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. For what more can the man who becomes the next king do than what the king has already done? Then I began to understand that wisdom has advantages over folly, just as light is more profitable than darkness. The wise man uses his eyes in his head to see where he is the fool walks in darkness, I know the same event happens to all of them. Then I said in my heart, "What happens to the fool, will also happen to me. So what difference does it make if I am wise?" I concluded in my heart, "This too is meaningless." For the wise man, like the fool, is not remembered for very long. In the days to come everything will have been long forgotten. The wise man dies just like the fool dies.
