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The quote is an Italian proverb of uncertain origin.
Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan said something very similar:
In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.
( Alexander Beatson A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan (1800) ch. 10)
Domestic sheep ( ovis aries ) live 12 -20 years.
A tiger can live between 30 and 35 years. But the oldest tiger lived 41 years.
No, humans can live to be over 100 years of age but not one thousand years old.