GOOD MANNERS AND MAGNANIMITY

Reason grows too. It is good manners that make reason grow. The more a person makes good manners his habit, the wiser he becomes. One without manners is far from reason and sense.

Good manners mean treating everyone as befits them.

Magnanimity is the force that moves a person to great deeds. Great deeds may or may not be visible to the eye.

In particular, not to wound and sadden the heart of the one you hold dear and great is also magnanimity.

Which is greater — the trouble that has befallen you, or the grief of the person you love?

(Righteous people are worthy of love)

The magnanimous person does not use his own troubles as an excuse to show neglect to his beloved. He does not embarrass his dear one by claiming the burden of his own sorrow. Not to do so requires magnanimity. And it requires the good manners that keep magnanimity in place.

This, too, is a kind of great deed. Is there any deed as great as guarding a heart?..