Principles and Practices - March 5

Change Places

Do be just and fair in everything. Always put yourself in the place of your neighbour, and put him in yours; and so will you judge righteously. Think yourself a seller when you are a buyer, and a buyer when you sell - so will your barter be fair. All these acts of injustice are small and may not indeed call for restitution, if we have not taken more than that which is strictly ours; but we are not the less obliged to amend our conduct; for all these are great failings against reason and charity.

-St. Francis de Sales.
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From Principles and Practices
Compiled by Rev. J. Hogan of The Catholic Missionary Society
Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., Publishers To The Holy See
Nihil Obstat; Eduardus J. Mahoney, S.T.D. Censor deputatus.
Imprimatur; Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius generalis.
First printed in 1930