Before you do anything, examine whether it is good or bad, right or wrong

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Before you do anything, examine whether it is good or bad, right or

wrong, and act according to the dictates of your conscience. Yet, even

in respect of the conscience, certain facts should be born in mind: the

promptings of intellectual reasoning should not be mistaken for the

dictates of the conscience. The directives should come from the

heart. When you dive deep into a problem and inquire whether what you

are thinking of doing is in the interests of your friends and society

in general, your conscience will give you the right answer. You should

not be guided by intellectual reasoning that has a selfish element in

it. You should be guided by a concern for the collective interests of

society at large. That alone is the true voice of conscience. This

kind of broad social conscience should be developed.