Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Interpretation
Failing to keep an appointment is dishonest and shows a lack of respect for someone's time.
This quote emphasizes the importance of keeping commitments and respecting others' time. Just as borrowing money without intention to repay is an act of dishonesty, so too is failing to honor an appointment, which can be seen as a disregard for someone else's value and time investment.
In practice
A reminder in a workshop about the importance of punctuality.
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
I think sometimes in the focus on deep friendships and on romantic relationships, we can lose sight of how important the small connections we make are with strangers and with people that we may encounter for just a few seconds or a few minutes, whether it's the barista at our coffee shop or the stranger next to us on the subway.
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.
Very often we donβt go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isnβt so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
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