If something worth living for is worth dying for, what about something not worth dying for?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- If extreme sacrifice is justified for some things, it highlights the absurdity of lesser things.
- In plain terms
- What if a thing isn't worth dying for? Then what about living for it?
- What can you take from it?
- Measure the value of your causes against the cost of sacrifice.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is worth your life? What is worth your time?
Another view
Sometimes small things matter more than grand principles.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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