“It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten”
Lobão (1957) Brazilian musician
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)
“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”
— Joseph Addison, book Cato
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
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