"We must, therefore, banish wickedness, that we may cultivate goodness, which is the creator of harmony."
Continuing still further the same argument, he adds:
"Common sense would have the tendency even to make us promise to be good, so as to satisfy our own egotism.
"Goodness creates smiles; to sow happiness around one, is a way of having neither eyes nor heart offended by the sight of people in tears; it is the eliciting of an agreeable joy, whose rays will shed a golden light over our life; is it not more pleasing to hear the ring of laughter than to listen to painful sobs?"
So, we should never lose an opportunity of being good and that without mental reservation.
Gratitude is not the possession of every soul and he who does good may expect to receive ingratitude.
He will not suffer from it, if he has done good, not in the way a creditor does who intends to come on the very day appointed to claim his debt, but as a giver who fulfils his mission from which he is expecting a personal satisfaction, without thinking of any acknowledgment for what he has done.
If the debtor is filled with gratitude, the joy of being good is that much increased.
There is a species of common sense of a particularly noble quality that is called moral sense and which the Shogun defines thus:
"The moral sense is the common sense of the soul; it is the superior power of reasoning which stands before us that we may be prevented from passively following our instincts; it is by its assistance that we succeed without too much difficulty in climbing the steep paths of duty.