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“It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Peleus. Frag. 445.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7483236e65857e88cd8825498f28491b777bd1ba45049ed522404410262671c1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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