Continue reading “The Line Separating Good And Evil”Gradually, it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts.
On The Nature of Wrongdoers
Continue reading “On The Nature of Wrongdoers”BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
Morals of an Emperor
From my grandfather I learned
Good morals, and
The government of the temper;
From my father
Modesty, and
Manly character;
From my mother
Piety,
Beneficence,
Abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts, and
Simplicity of the way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich;