Stronger than pain quotes (page 211) | Quotes of famous people

“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 34.

“Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.”

Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer

Source: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II

“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.

Seneca the Younger Thyestes

Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
Tragedies

“There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.”

Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.75, p. 165

“5085. 'Tis harder to unlearn than learn.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Letter (5 September 1919), in The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919

“Knowledge brings more questions than answers”

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

Quote in: Carlos Gershenson (2007) Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. p. 144
However Eduardo Gianetti (2001) Lies We Live By: The Art of Self Deception p. 136 stated:
Laplace's omniscient intelligence transcends the human condition and, what's more serious, seems to get ever more and more out of reach, as the advance of scientific knowledge brings more questions than answers.
Misattributed
Variant: Knowledge brings more questions than answers

“Pacyens is more worthy than myraclys werkyng.”

Margery Kempe (1373) English saint

Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.
Source: The Book of Margery Kempe, Ch. 51; p. 108.

“Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.”

Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam

Political slogan, quoted in Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam : A Personal Memoir (1972) by Jean Sainteny, p. 172

Variant translation: Nothing is more valuable than freedom and independence.

World Marxist Review: Problems of Peace and Socialism (1979), p. 91

“Better a brain drain than a brain in the drain.”

Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) sixth Prime Minister of India

Quoted in: Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East https://books.google.nl/books?id=3bNEcyRxk3oC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=charles+leadbeater++%22from+west+to+east%22&source=bl&ots=5P_cDPHVZF&sig=GfkXHeh-xNDhko5-h2NqD67zP5E&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF_afS-qzLAhXHzxQKHUcKBEoQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=brain%20drain&f=false, 2010, p. 70, and in: Mark L. Clifford, Janet Pau, Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia's Next Generation https://books.google.nl/books?id=UBSTDQ2P4G4C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+a+brain+drain+than+a+%22+gandhi&source=bl&ots=HFx1eY6xca&sig=N_OpfnYt0sTRH02YvHx_z-T3HM8&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji-en0ka7LAhUEaxQKHWf8D_gQ6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q=%22%20a%20brain%20drain%20than%20a%20%22%20gandhi&f=false, 2012 p. 29
When asked in an interview (date unknown) whether he did not regret the fact that so many intelligent Indians left their home country to go studying in the US.
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“It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored.”

Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British politician

In a handwritten note to the Postmaster General, who wanted to take action against "That Was The Week That Was", a satirical program.
Taken from letters-of-note.com http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/06/it-is-good-thing-to-be-laughed-at.html
1980s

“Better a live donkey than a dead lion.”

Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) Anglo-Irish polar explorer

Quoted in [Moss, Stephen, Captain Scott centenary: Storm rages around polar explorer's reputation, The Guardian, 28 March 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/28/captain-scott-antarctic-centenary-profile]

“No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

Rob Malda (1976) American businessman

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107
Talking the launch of the Apple iPod
Posted on Slashdot http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107, October 23, 2001

“Thy necessity is yet greater than mine”

Philip Sidney (1554–1586) English diplomat

Allegedly spoken after the Battle of Zutphen, when offering water to an injured peer, though himself gravely wounded.
Source: Sir Philip Sydney Biography http://www.biography.com/people/sir-philip-sidney-21397397,