The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Interpretation
A true gentleman demonstrates respect and kindness to everyone, regardless of their utility or status.
This quote emphasizes the importance of moral character and respect in relationships. It suggests that a person's true quality is revealed in how they treat those who do not serve a purpose for them, highlighting the value of humility and integrity in human interactions.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a business seminar about leadership and ethics.
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.
War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.
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