Rules of Life by Richard Lee

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A life unexamined is not worth living. Rules of life
I shall be quiet to people with base personality. Unless obliged to comment, never comment, for fate sees more properly than me. When I make a judgment, I shall never be partial to any party by my personal preference.
I shall try my best to be honest in all circumstances. I shall never give others expectations that are not likely to be answered. Make it happen whatever I have said.
Never do or say anything evil, or even think evil. I shall try to see as the other sees, and excuse and forgive him or her.
I shall have a strong sense of responsibility and do my duties on time. Never put off until tomorrow what I can do today, nor trouble another with what I can do myself.
Strong passions like anger, anxiety, jealousy, depression and extremity can only make things worse. They are a sign of unschooled folly and uncontrolled youth. I shall try in my power to remove them.
I shall spend a lot of time going over what is learned, until I feel comfortable that I have mastered the knowledge and skills and am able to use them freely.
I shall never dream dreams, seek delusions or ask impossibilities, at any time. I shall never venture any business by any foolish delusion of growing suddenly rich. I shall never fall suddenly love into someone who is not likely to love me.
I will be happy with what comes to me. I shall never bitch about anything bitter, for I know utter complaint can never do anything good.
I shall be ready to take risks and become vulnerable. A watched pot will not boil itself.
As a man of few words, I shall speak slowly and articulately to make me understood. I shall speak and write as plainly as possible.
I shall never judge something or someone by their appearance. I shall not believe rumors without investigation, nor rush into conclusion.
When I disagree with people, I shall be quiet and reserve my own judgment, and never challenge them.
I shall have things always in their places for easy tracking.
I shall never squander time, for time is what life is made of.

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good ideas!   do as your pleased!

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相信很多人读过Book of Common Prayer.
Question. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour?
Answer. My duty towards my Neighbour, is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me: To love, honour, and succour my father and mother: To honour and obey the Queen, and all that are put in authority under her: To submit myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors and masters: To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters: To hurt no body by word nor deed: To be true and just in all my dealing: To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart: To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evilspeaking, lying, and slandering: To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity: Not to covet nor desire other men's goods; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.

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I do not think it possible for a better man to be injured by a worse.... you, therefore, O my judges, ought to entertain good hopes with respect to death, and to meditate on this one truth, that to a good man nothing is evil, neither while living nor when dead, nor are his concerns neglected by the gods. And what has befallen me is no the effect of chance; but this is clear to me, that now to die, and be freed from my cares, is better for me....

Thus much, however, I beg of them. Punish my sons, when they grow up, O judges, paining them as I have pained you, if they appear to you to care for riches or anything else before virtue, and if they think themselves to be something when they are nothing, reproach them as I have done you, for not attending to what they ought, and for conceiving themselves to be something when they are worth nothing. If ye do this, both I and my sons shall have met with just treatment at your hands.
Socrates 399 B.C.

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read and thanks!