“Someone may tell you that a man should not consider the price of life, but only whether his life is good or bad.”Platon · Apologia lui Socrate · -399 · Apologia, 37e
What matters is not how long you live, but how rightly you live.
Socrates separates two questions we often blur: how long a life is and how good it is. Price — years, comfort, safety — is not the criterion; the criterion is how rightly it is lived. An example: someone who lies for a promotion gains years of career but loses the very thing that made life worth living. Length without quality is no gain.
Why it matters Useful when choosing between a safe position that compromises you and a hard one that leaves your integrity intact.