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Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.'
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The third aspect of the tragic triad concerns death. But it concerns life as well, for at any time each of the moments of which life consists is dying, and that moment will never recur. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives? It certainly is, and hence my imperative: Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
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One Rivulet meeting another, with whom he had been long united in strictest Amity, with noisy Haughtiness and Disdain thus bespoke him, "What, Brother! Still in the same State! Still low and creeping! Are you not asham'd, when you behold me, who, tho' lately in a like Condition with you, am now become a great River, and shall shortly be able to rival the Danube or the Rhine, provided those friendly Rains continue, which have favor'd my Banks, but neglected yours." Very true, replies the humble Rivulet; "You are now, indeed, swoln to great Size: But methinks you are become, withal, somewhat turbulent and muddy. I am contented with my low Condition and my Purity."
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I ask you today to make a declaration of individual independence. And if you are independent be just. Allow everybody else to make his declaration of individual independence. Allow your wife, allow your husband, allow your children to make theirs. Let everybody be absolutely free and independent, knowing only the sacred obligations of honesty and affection. Let us be independent of party, independent of everybody and everything except our own consciences and our own brains. Do not belong to any clique. Have clear title-deeds in fee simple to yourselves, without any mortgages on the premises to anybody in the world.
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...I'm such an obvious ass myself that I should be delighted to think you are too.
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There is a morality of Master and a Morality of Slaves -- Moral values have been determined either by a race of Masters, conscious and proud of the distance that separates them from the ruled race -- or by a crowd of subjective ones, slaves, inferiors of all kinds.
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...will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be depraved, which is improved by justice and deteriorated by injustice?
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And are there not many other cases in which we observe that when a man's desires violently prevail over his reason, he reviles himself, and is angry at the violence within him, and that in this struggle, which is like the struggle of factions in a State, his spirit is on the side of his reason...
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For he who delights in doing just deeds, who is devoted to justice, who in everything endeavors to do what is just, is called a just man. On the other hand the unjust is he who neglects to give every man his due, or thinks the measure must be not that of his duty, but of present advantage.
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Vice, like virtue, has its steps up and down.
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Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong. This judgment, therefore, is what must be regulated. He who judges of morality judges of honor; and he who judges of honor finds his law in opinion.
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The true individualism, as I understand it, consists not in freedom to cheat one's neighbor, but in the freedom to develop one's own intellect. At present our so-called "freedom" is mostly of the former kind.
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The individual liberty that ignores the common good is not liberty but rather the enemy of liberty.
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I lay it down as a general maxim, that the characteristic of a good action consists in the conformity between the motive, and the duty of the agent. Were there but one man upon earth, his duty would contain no other precepts than those dictated by self-love.
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There are the people who betray their obligation, more or less seriously, by acting against their conscience, whereas conscience should have the decisive word in the action.
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A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should be doing something wrong.
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : Morality -- Added.
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