I said in my heart Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I resolved to try another course. Go to now O my soul! I will try whether I cannot make thee happy by the enjoyment of sensual delights. This also is vanity Is vain, and unable to make men happy. I said of laughter, It is mad This is an act of madness, more fit for fools who know nothing, than for wise men in this sinful, and dangerous, and deplorable state of mankind. What doth it What good doth it? Or how can it make men happy? I challenge all the epicures in the world to give me a solid answer.
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Ecclesiastes 2:1-2
1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?