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Ecclesiastes 6:6

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Bonaventure

Therefore he says: "Even if he should live two thousand years," because we do not have knowledge through length of time, but through experience: Sirach 34: "He who has not been tested knows few things," according to what the Philosopher says: "Experience produced art, inexperience produced chance." On account of the incompleteness of desire, he adds: "Do not all things hasten to one place?" As if to say: on the part of the body, they will pass into the earth; Sirach 41: "All things that are made from the earth shall be converted into …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 6 ↗