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All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the rivers come, to there and from there they return again.

All things are weary with toil and all words are feeble; man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.(A)

The thing that has been—it is what will be again, and that which has been done is that which will be done again; and there is nothing new under the sun.

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All streams flow into the sea,
    yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
    there they return again.(A)
All things are wearisome,
    more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(B)
    nor the ear its fill of hearing.
What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;(C)
    there is nothing new under the sun.

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