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Chapter 58

Chapter 3, Section 15 Honesty Is the Best Policy

Feng Youlan

From a social point of view, faith is an important morality.In Chinese moral philosophy, faith is one of the five constants.The so-called constant refers to the eternal and unchanging morality.The establishment of a society depends entirely on the mutual assistance of its members.To help each other, the members must first be able to trust each other.For example, we don't have to cook for ourselves, but we can eat because there are cooks who cook for us.In this respect, it is the cook who helps us.On the other hand, we pay the cook so that he can support his family, and we help the cook.This is mutual aid.To have this mutual assistance, there must first be mutual trust.We work here without worrying about lunch, because we believe that our cook will prepare it for us; our cook will prepare lunch for us, because he believes that we will pay him at the end of the month.This is mutual trust.If there is no such mutual trust between us and the cook, if we are untrustworthy people, the cook will not get paid at the end of the month, the cook will not do it; if the cook is untrustworthy, and lunch is not prepared when it should be prepared, then We will not dare to use a cook.It is obvious that mutual assistance is impossible without mutual trust.

From the point of view of personal success, having faith is also a necessary condition for personal success.Imagine a person who never speaks properly and always deceives others.He said he would go to a date, but he would not go there; he said he would pay a bill, but he would not pay it back.If he is so untrustworthy, no one in society would dare to associate with him, and no one would be able to associate with him.If no one in society dares to associate and work with him, if no one can associate with him and work with him, he will not be able to gain a foothold in society, and he will not be able to mix in society.On the other hand, if a person speaks, he always keeps his word and never deceives others. If he says he wants to go to a date, he will definitely arrive when the time comes;If so, people in the society must be willing to communicate and work with him, which is a necessary condition for his success in doing things.For example, many shops charge false prices. For example, there is one shop that is truly "genuine at a price, and no one can deceive you."On the plus side, he's still a bargain.That's why Westerners often say: "Honesty is the best policy."

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Honesty is the premise of life and the ideological basis for being able to keep one's word, and keeping one's word is the external expression of honesty.Only when you are honest in your heart, treat people with sincerity and sincerity, and be open and honest, can you be trustworthy in doing things, have credibility, and be trusted by others.Especially in market economic activities, based on integrity, based on integrity, and establishing a career with integrity, there must be a way out.For teenagers, we should develop the habit of honesty from an early age. We must strictly abide by the word "trust" whether we are with parents, teachers, or classmates.If you don't keep your promises, you can only ruin your own future in the end.Kindness needs enlightenment, just like seeds in the soil need the nourishment of sunshine and rain.

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