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.
Plutôt souffrir que mourir, C'est la devise des hommes.
Fables (1668–1679)
“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
Collected Writings, vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889) http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1883_092.htm
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”
Quoted in Scott MacLeod, "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975037,00.html, Time, March 9, 1992, p. 38
Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159
“It is better to suffer, than to do, wrong.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555), p. 164
Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.
“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”
April 17, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“5068. 'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
