Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.
It is better to die well than to live badly.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.