manners [Theme]
A person with a bad character carries within himself an enemy with whom he always fights and from whom he can never escape.
Sometimes I tell my son almost forgotten legends about courage and justice. This child is the meaning of my existence. If he is not the Word of God, then God is mute.
-Did you hear your own sarcasm?
Yesterday I asked the housekeeper for three rubles - she gave it, you scoundrel, and didn’t ask when I’d give it back.
Depraved morals. Yes. But hypocrisy is no better than cynicism.
If my notes fall into your hands, remember that the best and most lasting changes are those that come from the improvement of morals, without any violent upheavals.
A small, very small number of people placed at the head of the state is enough to correct or spoil the morals of the people.
Simplicitly not noticing their own faults in their mistakes.
Quote Explanation: (Igor Orlov for the magazine "Own Avalon")
I feel sorrow when morals are not improved, what they teach is not understood, and knowing the duty, they cannot follow it and are not able to eliminate the vice.
Often the main characters go over the heads for their own benefit. And how many are ready to throw mud at a person just because they didn’t like him for something.
We can only sprinkle ashes on our heads. Good morals are gone. We will inevitably slide into the abyss. This neglect, this eternal search for pleasure.
In the old days, the word of a man was worth its weight in gold. And now it's not worth a penny. About times about morals ...
In that old time of which we are speaking, there was almost no government in Hobbitania. Each family itself, as best they could, dealt with their own affairs - mostly about how to grow a better crop and how to feed themselves tastier. Otherwise, the hobbits were more or less accommodating, not at all greedy; habitually content with their own, they did not covet someone else's.
only more criminal and more terrible?
- If you start talking nonsense, this is a sure sign that I've been too busy with you.
