Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.

Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Yea, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no longer be admonished.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind.