“The moral precept to adopt…is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.”
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 235
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