κακῶς ζῆν κρεῖσσον ἢ καλῶς θανεῖν → better to live ignobly than to die nobly, better to live badly than to die well
for ἐστὶν ὅτε, Lat. est quum, there is a time when, i. e. now and then, sometimes, Soph., Xen.
sometimes
