Aphorism #191 Do not take Payment in Politeness;

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Aphorism #191 Do not take Payment in Politeness;

for it is a kind of fraud. Some do not need the herbs of Thessaly for their magic, for they can enchant fools by the grace of their salute. Theirs is the Bank of Elegance, and they pay with the wind of fine words. To promise everything is to promise nothing: promises are the pitfalls of fools. The true courtesy is performance of duty: the spurious and especially the useless is deceit. It is not respect but rather a means to power. Obeisance is paid not to the man but to his means, and compliments are offered not to the qualities that are recognised but to the advantages that are desired.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=p5__WhiAzTA:JI3LFmvLbG4:yIl2A UoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=p5__WhiAzTA:JI3LFmvLbG4:qj6ID K7rITs)
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[cafolini]

This is so because the follower most likely thinks that power comes from money; not money from power. But if the follower were given riches at birth and the powerful man of means were born poor, the former would lose it all to the man of means. Some are born followers. Others are born leaders. I'm excluding tyrants, despots and nepotists from these con-siderations.