It is better to go to a funeral than a feast. For death is the destiny of every person, and the living should take this to heart.

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.