Life is precious, but love is more expensive. What do you mean? Where did it come from?

Life is precious, love is more expensive; If you are free, you can throw both. -Hungarian poet Petfi Sándor.

Translation:

Life is precious, love is more precious, but both can be abandoned for freedom.

Freedom and Love is a short poem written by Hungarian poet petofi in 1847. It was translated by Yin Fu, a left-wing writer, spread by Lu Xun, and is well known to readers in China. Later, it was introduced into middle school Chinese textbooks and became one of the most familiar foreign poems for China readers.