“A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.”
Ecclesiastes 7:1 (BSB)
Context Reading
1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth. 2It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart. 3Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.