Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 7:3
A church father on this verse
“Take the case that someone has subjects, for example, children or slaves. If he is angry with them and in a fury so that he limits the evil, then his anger is good, not anger as such, but the anger of a father over his child, of a guardian's anger over his charge.…He calls that kind of anger good that prevents sins fr…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Sorrow is better than laughter: For by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.
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1A good name is better than good oil; And the day of death than the day of birth.
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.
— Ecclesiastes 7:3 —
4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man, Than for a man to hear the song of fools.