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MOTTO Learning is fun for creative minds. Top Ten Rules of Decent Behaviour.
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MOTTO Learning is fun for creative minds Top Ten Rules of Decent Behaviour This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
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1.Love your fellow creature • Love 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 Unknown • Only 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 envious • Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb • Do 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 creatures • Treachery will come home to the traitor. -Romanian proverb • Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -Benjamin Franklin
8. Don’t be cruel • Cruelty: 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 greediness • Greediness: 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 Edison • There 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.