“The harm that I have not done, what harm it has done!”
El mal que no he hecho, ¡cuánto mal ha hecho!
Voces (1943)
A saying in Cuzeian theism http://www.zompist.com/cuzeian.htm#Responsibility
Fictional sayings
“The harm that I have not done, what harm it has done!”
El mal que no he hecho, ¡cuánto mal ha hecho!
Voces (1943)
“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
§ IV
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Context: Of all the Qualifications, Love is the most important, for if it is strong enough in a man, it forces him to acquire all the rest, and all the rest without it would never be sufficient. Often it is translated as an intense desire for liberation from the round of births and deaths, and for union with God. But to put it in that way sounds selfish, and gives only part of the meaning. It is not so much desire as will, resolve, determination. To produce its result, this resolve must fill your whole nature, so as to leave no room for any other feeling. It is indeed the will to be one with God, not in order that you may escape from weariness and suffering, but in order that because of your deep love for Him you may act with Him and as He does. Because He is Love, you, if you would become one with Him, must be filled with perfect unselfishness and love also.
In daily life this means two things; first, that you shall be careful to do no hurt to any living thing; second, that you shall always be watching for an opportunity to help.
First, to do no hurt. Three sins there are which work more harm than all else in the world — gossip, cruelty, and superstition — because they are sins against love. Against these three the man who would fill his heart with the love of God must watch ceaselessly.
“Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.”
Vahishto-Ishti Gatha; Yasna 53, 6.
The Gathas
“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
Source: The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
“To create a public scandal is what's wicked;
To sin in private is not a sin.”
Le scandale du monde est ce qui fait l'offense,
Et ce n'est pas pécher que pécher en silence.
Act IV, sc. v
Tartuffe (1664)
Harijan (20 October 1946); as quoted in The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts (1985)
1940s