“I think… I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.”
Fragile Things (2006)
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Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to.”
Penso che una vita per la musica sia una vita spesa bene ed è a questo che mi sono dedicato.
As quoted at a tribute page on his official website, lucianopavarotti.com (September 2007) http://www.lucianopavarotti.com
Dorothy Parker "Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It', with Illustrations", in The New Yorker, November 26, 1927.
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“I would rather save the life of one citizen than kill a thousand enemies.”
...malle se unum civem servare quam mille hostes occidere.
According to the Historia Augusta (fourth century), Roman emperor Antoninus Pius often repeated this saying of Scipio ("Antoninus Pius", 9.10); no earlier attribution to Scipio (or mention of the dictum itself, for that matter) is known.
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" Kids? Just say no: You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation https://aeon.co/essays/having-children-is-not-life-affirming-its-immoral", Aeon (2017)
