She was overjoyed and prayed before the statue of the goddess to give her sons the best thing for human beings to attain. After they had sacrificed and feasted, Cleobis and Biton went to sleep in the temple and never woke up. The end of their life was the very best and thereby god showed clearly how it is better to be dead than alive. Statues of the brothers were set up in Delphi, since they had been the best of men. The Nature of God and Human Life .
All deity is jealous and fond of causing trouble.
Furthermore, in the length of a lifetime of seventy years there is much that one does not wish to see and not one of the days in all those years will bring exactly the same experiences. A human being is completely a thing of chance. A human life cannot be judged happy until it has been completed. The one from whom fate has kept most evils and misfortunes and to whom fate has given most blessings and good fortune, this one is the happiest, provided as well that his death at the end is good. It is too soon to judge Croesus happiest because his life is not yet over and can not be reviewed in its entirety.