Top Ten Rules of Decent Behaviour

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1. Love your fellow creatureLove me when I least deserve it, because that

's when I really need it. -Swedish Proverb 

2. Be sincere - always tell what you think and what you feel“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first

principles.” ― Confucius

3. Esteem and respect your friends - they are one of the most precious things you have.

A friend is as it were , a second self. Cicero A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my

world. ~Leo Buscaglia Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.

~Author UnknownOnly your real friends will tell you when your face is

dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb

4. Be good and compassionate. You will achieve through goodness that which you cannot achieve through harshness.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good !Sophocles How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty world! Shakespeare

5. Be kind - a kind word opens iron gates Kindness begets kindness. : Greek Proverb Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf

can hear – African proverb Kind words are worth much and they cost little.-Author

unknown Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to

you – not because they are nice, but because you are. Author unknown

6. Don’t be enviousEnvy is thin because it bites but never

eats.  ~Spanish ProverbDo not overrate what you have received, nor

envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. -Buddha

7. Never betray your friends and fellow creaturesTreachery will come home to the

traitor. -Romanian proverbTricks and treachery are the practice of

fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -Benjamin Franklin

8. Don’t be cruelCruelty: Only the weak are cruel.

Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. -Leo Buscaglia

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. -King Solomon

9. Shun greedinessGreediness: It is not the man who has little,

but he who desires more, that is poor. – Seneca

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. –Thoreau

10. Don’t be lazy Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90

percent perspiration. -Thomas EdisonThere is more trouble in having nothing

to do than in having much to do.Make a lazy man do the job , to teach you

sense.