Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 11:1.

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    Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 7:3-4.

    Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
    English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)