³ A man might father a hundred children,^[a] and live for many years, so that the length of his life^[b] is long—but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn’t receive a proper^[c] burial, I maintain that stillborn children^[d] are better off than he is, ⁴ because stillborn children^[e] arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness. ⁵ Furthermore, though they never saw the sun nor learned anything,^[f] they are more content than the other.