Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 7:2
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“If anyone wants to ascend, let him seek not the joys of the world or the pleasant things or the delights but whatever is filled with pain and weeping; for it is better to go into a house of sorrow than into a house of rejoicing. Indeed, Adam would not have come down from paradise unless he had been beguiled by pleasur…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2It is better to go to the house of mourning, Than to go to the banquet house: Since this is the end of every man; And the living man will apply good warning to his heart.
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1A good name is better than good oil; And the day of death than the day of birth.
— Ecclesiastes 7:2 —
3Sorrow is better than laughter: For by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.
4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.