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ANCIENT QUOTES / MENTAL WELLNESS
Practical World Sayings That Will Make You Think (4)
Here for you to think about, here is number four
Philosophers came up with so many interesting and quotes yet sadly, many people either don’t use them or, maybe haven’t heard of many… and that’s a shame, as numerous ones are quite useful for today’s world.
So let me introduce you to this one:
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
Mentally39.com Marcus Aurelius (a Roman emperor and Philosopher.)
www.oldest.org remind us that, ‘… while times may change, people and the joys and challenges they face in life have been the same throughout the centuries. Millennia pass by, but questions about love, happiness, life, war, success, and reality continue.’
Aurelius reminds everybody that saying something that isn’t true, is not good, so just don’t say it.
We call it unethical behaviour today.
Yet if Aurelius was right in what he believed with his quote back then, had he an idea of a white lie was at all?
verywellmind point out that, ‘… while most people agree that lies are damaging, destructive, and downright wrong, there are…