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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.

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by John Stuart Blackie (1850): "Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better Than thus to drag sick life."

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