I praised — I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the present debate; and considering the uncertainty, and vanity, and manifold calamities of the present life, a wise man would not account it worth his while to live.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.