George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2007, Virginia Tech Prayer Vigil (April 2007)
“Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.”
Pt. I line 416.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700Related quotes
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”
William Blackstone book Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book IV, ch. 27.
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖν
ἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
Variant translation by John Stuart Blackie (1850):
"Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better
Than thus to drag sick life."
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 750–751
“It is better to suffer, than to do, wrong.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555), p. 164
William Henry Ashurst (judge) (1725–1807) English judge
Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.
“Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Plutôt souffrir que mourir,
C'est la devise des hommes.
Book I (1668), fable 16.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“5068. 'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)