2025-10-24
       
 (TXT) Encheiridion 24
       
          what use will you be...if you turn out shameless and
          untrustworthy?
       
       This is a great reminder that there are many things promoted as
       being good for us or our community, but if we give up what is
       good for us to do and be, have we really done a good thing?
       
       However, I must confess that I wonder how applicable this is to
       me.  It seems like an excellent warning for the ambitious and
       powerful, but for someone like me, I think I rather suffer more
       from not doing enough to make myself and the world around me a
       better.  I confess that I am lazy and that there is much left
       undone that would be done if I were more dedicated to being the
       type of person I know I ought to be.  So, there is a sort of
       inflected warning for me.  What use will I be if I turn out to be
       shameless and untrustworthy, whether through deed done or through
       the deeds I leave undone.  In either case, the important thing is
       to conduct myself rightly.
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