¹⁶ For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

⁵ The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.^(A)

¹⁴ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.^(A)