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Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Memories are worse than bullets.”
Variant: There are worse prisons than words.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
“The pencil is mightier than the pen.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Forgiveness is better than revenge.”
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in Life of Pittacus, i. 76, citing Heraclitus as his source.
Pittacus made this remark to justify his release of his captured enemy Alcaeus.
According to William Shepard Walsh, in Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892), p. 392, Epictetus, quoting from the same source, gives the phrase thus: "Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is proof of a gentle, the other of a savage, nature."
“It's harder to heal than it is to kill.”
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Bravery is better than magnanimity.”
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Source: Siyar al-Muta'ahirīn
“The microphone is mightier than the pen.”
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“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”
The New Gods (1969)
“It is better to be the hammer than the nail.”
Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1991)
“To shine is better than to reflect.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 16 (p. 220)