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It was better to live for two days like a tiger than drag out an existence like a sheep for two hundred years.
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The quote values how one lives over how long one lives. Its contrast between a tiger and a sheep presents two days of strength, courage, and self-direction as more worthwhile than two hundred years of passive existence. It is a forceful rejection of simply enduring life without fully asserting oneself.
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