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01-18-2012, 04:20 AM
Aphorism #187 Do pleasant Things Yourself, unpleasant Things through Others.

By the one course you gain goodwill, by the other you avoid hatred. A great man takes more pleasure in doing a favour than in receiving one: it is the privilege of his generous nature. One cannot easily cause pain to another without suffering pain either from sympathy or from remorse. In high place one can only work by means of rewards and punishment, so grant the first yourself, inflict the other through others. Have some one against whom the weapons of discontent, hatred, and slander may be directed. For the rage of the mob is likethat of a dog: missing the cause of its pain it turns to bite the whip itself, and though this is not the real culprit, it has to pay the penalty. http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2_SA_Ktt4KNYY9PEEPLeWPvy3ZU/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2_SA_Ktt4KNYY9PEEPLeWPvy3ZU/0/da)
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Mutatis-Mutandis
01-18-2012, 10:38 AM
What's the point of posting all these?

billl
01-18-2012, 01:59 PM
It's like a desk calendar with a quote for each day or something--a daily bite-sized something-to-think-about. I had never encountered these before seeing them here (they were running sometime maybe a year or so ago, and just recently started up again). These aphorisms can also be found collected in the form of a small book, but I think one a day, when I'm checking LitNet, is a pretty good pace--I was happy to stumble across them here. An out of the ordinary feature of Litnet, though.

Mutatis-Mutandis
01-18-2012, 05:58 PM
Okay. I still don't get the ads, though.