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A  Good Name is Better than Precious Oil

When Rabbi  Yochanan finished reading the Book of Job  he would say: The end  of a man  is death and  the end  of a beast  is  slaughter. Every creature born must die.  Blessed  is  he who  was  reared  in  Torah  and  who labored in Torah, who  pleased his  Creator, who  lived with  a good  name  and  who  departed this world  with  a good  name. Of such a person, Solomon said, "A good name is better than precious oil, and the day of death is better than the day of birth" (Ecclesiastes 8:1).

Berachos 17a