_Midrasch el Kohelet_: "Better is a poor and wise child than an old an… — Pensées
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_Midrasch el Kohelet_: "Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who cannot foresee the future."[169] The child is virtue, and the king is the malignity of man. It is called king because all the members obey it, and old because it is in the human heart from infancy to old age, and foolish because it leads man in the way of [_perdition_], which he does not foresee. The same thing is in _Midrasch Tillim_.
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