“To feed on Death is to become food for Death. To live by others' pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the Omniwill. Know that and choose your course, Micayon.”
The Book of Mirdad (1948)
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Mikha'il Na'ima 15
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“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
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Variant: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death.

“Pain has become your motto in life and heaven your final goal.”
Finding Life after Death
What About the Big Stuff (2002)
Entra una nueva pena y las viejas penas de la casa la reciben calladas, no muertas.
Voces (1943)