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1824 Decr 6
Deontology private

Patience under invective is a lesson hard to learn – &
difficult to practice, – but well worthy of being learned & practised.

If in your presence, an attack is made upon you
be it ever so violeoutrageous, especially if there be others in
company, treat it if you can, either with manifest plain good humour
indifference plain good humor, or with pleasantry, as occasion serves. The
more outrageous the attack, and to him the assailant who makes it the
more disgraceful, the more effectually will he be then put
down: he will be disappointed, humbled, and yet not irritated, not
made your enemy in a greater degree than he was before,
he may possibly be even reconciled. In this The As to his disappointment
it follows of course: at any rate if no other persons are
present. For in this a case what could have been the object
of the attacker, by the supposition no other than the making
you suffer: and the more so completely undisturbed
your complacency, the more complete his failure.

There is no doubt of the number of those lessons
which it is so much easier to give than to : few
lessons be it repeated either of self-regarding prudence or of effective beneficence
benevolence can be more difficult than this.

This however or any other conquest over temptation
may on adequate inducement, be effected by previous
preparation. Exercises for the strengthening the body
have been invented, and with illustrious success brought
into practice, this it is of the number of those exercises
by which, on a similar principle, the strength – the
passive strength of patience – may be given to the mind.

Identifier: | JB/015/516/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1824-12-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	516	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f201
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	5732
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