A Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.
If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.
Love is your master, for he masters you;
And he that is so yoked by a fool
Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
Methods are the masters of masters.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.
A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'
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