This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: / There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: / Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years; but understanding is gray hair for anyone, and a blameless life is ripe old age.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.