To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Compromising your integrity for small unethical acts makes it harder to resist doing worse later.
- In plain terms
- Doing bad things once makes it easier to do them again.
- What can you take from it?
- Protect your integrity early to avoid gradual moral decline.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where is your line in the sand?
- Can small compromises lead to big failures?
Another view
People can sometimes correct course after minor ethical slips.
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