Ecclesiastes 7:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

³ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

⁴ Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.