Abstract
Well-known sayings, quotations, and proverbs help provide us with bases for understanding socially acceptable thoughts and deeds. Generally, in Western cultures, it is believed that adherence to the Golden Rule and acting in a charitable manner will lead to interpersonal and intrapersonal profit, whereas those who subscribe to Machiavellian rhetoric will suffer because of his or her own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. In short, common sense dictates that those whose social behaviors are judged to be skillful, successful, and acceptable over time and across settings will lead productive, honorable, and successful lives. Those judged as incompetent are predicted to suffer a variety of malevolent consequences.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
(Pericles, The Peloponnesian War)
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
(The Golden Rule)
It will be seen that some habits which appear virtues, if adopted would signify ruin, and others that seem vices lead to security and well-being... the question arises... whether it is better to be loved than feared or feared than loved... it is much safer to be feared than to be loved, if one must choose.
(Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince)
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
(John Stuart Mill, On Liberty)
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Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L. (1992). Interpersonal Problem Solving and Social Competence in Children. In: Van Hasselt, V.B., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Social Development. Perspectives in Developmental Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0694-6_12
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