We need positivism not to be slaves to vices, but to remove the inhibition of fear that prevents us from serving our dreams and love. Often fear prevents a person from fulfilling his destiny, and we need a tool to deal with fear.
I am the lowest and most fallen of men. I am the most foolish and deceitful of men. I am the worst and most vicious of men. Love me, and you will subdue your pride, and you will be saved from your sufferings. You long to love idols. And that's the mortal sin of pride, making your life hell. Love what is unworthy of love. And you will know true love.
A barrel of honey and a spoonful of tar is a story about bees. I don't need your honey, just don't sting me. On the other hand, intelligence was given to us in order to learn how to deal with bees.
Being afraid to offend a loved one in order to earn his love is a dead-end path of development. Proud people are touchy, if you do not offend him, his sensitivity to insults will grow. At first, he was offended that a frying pan was thrown at him, but if there is no frying pan, he will begin to be offended that he is not treated kindly enough by serving morning coffee in bed.
Vice is touchy and superstitious. Slaves of Vice are greatly offended when misfortunes are predicted to them. You tell him: "Vice will not bring you to good." And he shouts in anger: "Why are you prophesying misfortune to me!?"
"How much rope do not lie" is about vices. Either way, Pride precedes falling into hell. The proud man, one way or another, will suffer, but the stick on the contrast of carrots is especially unbearable.
Save me from lies. 1 and 0 are not 10, but only 1, Zero does not exist. Lying creates an idol and exaggerates its importance. The devil is not so terrible as he is painted.
The Sage does not love wealth so much as he prefers it to poverty. Everything is love, but we have free will to prefer one to the other. Only a fool can suffer from the absence of wealth, but a wise man rejoices in what is, including wealth.
Should be honest and always speak for yourself. I want it for myself and for myself. I am happy to be good, it is profitable for me to save loved ones, everything I do, I do for myself. It would be a lie to make people pay for something that I made it for myself.
Treat your neighbor the way you want him to treat you. Meditate on Justice. If you resent a person for putting his ideals above you, why do you put your ideals above that person? You are offended by a person that he does not correspond to your illusions, and you do not want to love him. He resented you for not wanting to love him. You don't live up to his ideals either. He thinks you have to love him all the time. You think you can only love the perfect.
To subdue someone else's pride, you first have to subdue your own pride. Pride is fear and lies. Quelling lies requires honesty. Quelling fear requires courage.
Just do it without thinking about the goal, time and money. All these thoughts generate fears and stop the matter. True love does not think of lies, but of beauty and duty.
An idealist is an idolater who himself cannot become ideal, but provokes his ideal to the objects of the real world, trying to turn them into his ideal, and then, having taken possession of this ideal, he himself becomes ideal. More the ideal is the idealist's idea of himself. Thus the idealistic idolater tries to transform the idol into himself.