Tham khảo tài liệu 'thật thà là đức tính tôt - honesty is the best policy', kỹ năng mềm, tâm lý - nghệ thuật sống phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 1. HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY THẬT THA LA MỘT ĐỨC TÍNH TOT OUTLINE Introduction - This is a worldly - minded proverb. 1. Honesty in business probably pays in the long run. 2. But dishonesty often leads to worldly success. 3. And honesty has often to worldly ruin 4. From a spiritual point of view honesty pays best because it is right. This is an old and often repeated proverb1 but is it true It has a suspiciously worldly flavour2 for it means that from a worldly point of view it pays3 to be honest. Now a really honest man will not ask whether honesty pays or not. He feels he must be honest even if4 honesty brings him loss or suffering simply because5 it is right to be honest and wrong to be dishonest. This proverb is therefore of little use6 to sincerely honest people it is really meant only if for those unprincipled men7 who will be honest only if honesty pays and will be dishonest if they think dishonesty will pay them better. Probably honesty does pay in the long run8. In business for example a man who deals9 straight forwardly with the public who sells at fair prices10 who gives good quality and can be relied upon11 not to cheat will generally establish a reputation that will be a fine business asset. People will be glad to deal with him and though he may not make a fortune12 he will have a sound and satisfactory business. On the other hand13 there is no doubt that success is often due to14 trickery and great fortunes have been built up upon dishonesty. Too many successful rogues have proved by experience that for them dishonesty had been the best policy. Of course some of these people come to a bad end15 and lose all they have gained by their lies but many maintain their worldly success is more due to ability lucky opportunities and business cunning than to honesty. And many examples could be given of men who from a worldly point of view16 have failed because they were honest. A martyr17 who prefers to be burned at the stake rather than say what he believes to
