the good die young

Meanings

1. Well-regarded people who are morally upright, kind, and beneficent tend to die at a younger age than do most people.

Etymology

Variant of the Latin Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur ("whom the gods love dies young"), from Plautus's Bacchides, apparently adapted from a line in Dis Exapaton (The Double Deceiver) by Menander.