Your Full Vision, Mission and Values
Is the Charter a source of marketing slogans or an internal compass? People often feel that the Words at the Top should be short and easily remembered.
Why should I undertake to divide my virtues into four rather than into six? Why should I rather establish virtue in four, in two, in one? Why into “Abstine et sustine*” rather than into “Follow Nature” or “Conduct your private affairs with- out injustice” as Plato, or anything else? But there, you will say, everything is contained in one word. Yes, but it is useless without explanation, and when we come to explain it, as soon as we unfold this maxim which contains all the rest, they emerge in that first con- fusion which you desired to avoid. So, when they are all included in one, they are hidden and useless, as in a chest, and never appear save in their natural confusion. Nature has established them all without including one in the other. Pascal, Pensees , 20 * A maxim of the Stoics: Bear and Forebear. Bear whatever troubles you; Forebear (abstain) from temptations and pleasures that challenge your moral freedom.
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