Wisdom and Folly Contrasted

"For wicked men it had been best not to have been born, or being born, to die quickly; since by living long they heap up first sin, and then wrath against the day of wrath. As for good men, there is no doubt, but the day of death is best to them, because it is the daybreak of eternal righteousness; Hence the ancient fathers called those days wherein the martyrs suffered their birthdays, because then they began to live indeed..."