The Values

CITIZENSHIP:  1

N.V.

1) What is citizenship?

It’s the quality of citizen who opened political rights but which creates also duties (tax, military...) It is acquired either by filiations, or by the effect of the law (adoption, naturalization...)

It’s to take part in the activity life of the city, and also to assume its responsibilities.

2) Of what does consist the training of the citizenship?

To learn how to live and work with those who we does not like inevitably.

It’s to learn the tolerance; and also to accept the difference.

FREEDOM- LIBERTY:  2

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1) Which is the truest meaning of freedom?

Freedom in its truest meaning is not to do what we want when we wish it, but it is to understand which are our rights, our responsibilities and to act consequently.

Freedom exists only if the concept of rights is balanced by the one of the responsibilities.

2) Which are the limits of freedom?

Our freedom does not stop always there, where that of the others starts, but it increases that of the others, when we join them.

It is not to deal with all that arrives but is to let the others manage their own destiny.

2) What is to be free?

It is to be independent of the different one. Somebody who needs the assistance of another person, a thing or a condition in is dependent.

Less there are desires more freedom is large.

EQUALITY:  3

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1) What is the equality of the citizens?

It is the relationship between individuals equal in right and subjected to the same obligations.

2) What has to take into account the true equality?

In the everyday life the true equality must take account of the aspirations and particular needs for the people and respect the difference of each one.

FRATERNITY:  4

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What is fraternity?

It is the natural bond that should bring together all the members of the human family.

It is a feeling of solidarity which us plain.

CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY:  5

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1) What is civic responsibility?

It is dedication towards the community and the state.

The interests of the nation have priority on the particular interests.

2) Is it essential to follow an occupation to be useful for the nation?

It is not essential to follow an occupation or to work out home to be useful for the nation. The woman who discharges her duties of housewife is as useful for the fatherland as any other citizen.

PATRIOTISM:   6

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1) What is patriotism?

It is a feeling of love, devotion and respect towards the motherland where we were born and possibly also towards the fatherland of adoption who protects and nourishes us.

2) To what can lead patriotism?

It can lead to the self-sacrifice, like in the case of thousands of heroes of war.

2) With what shouldn’t one confuse patriotism?

We do not to confuse with the nationalism which can lead to the hatred of the others.

POLITENESS:  7

R.A.

1) What is politeness?

It is the observance of the considerations which one owes with his similar.
It is a manner of being those whose education developed the spirit and the heart.

TRUTH:  9

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1) How many kinds of truths are there?

                      (Relative Truth
2 kinds (
                       (Absolute Truth

2) What is relative truth?

It is what we perceive by our senses. What is true for a person is not it inevitably for another. (Before one believed that the earth was flat.)

“The Truth never changes, what changes is comprehension that the men have. ” (Emmet Fox)

3) What is absolute truth?

It is what was true yesterday, which is true today and what will be still true tomorrow.

4) Are all the truths good to say?

Not it is to better avoid saying a truth which is likely to wound or to make suffer.

The truth must always contribute to the improvement of an individual, or the amelioration of a situation.

5) Give another definition of truth:

It is the unit of thought, word and action: to say what one thinks and to do what one says.

DISCRIMINATION:  10

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1) What is discrimination?

I can make the difference between what is well or badly. For that I learn how to make the difference between what is important and what is not .

It is to recognize the true values and to listen to my small interior voice.

The discrimination makes us able to decide importance which we must attach to the various aspects of a given situation.

2) What tells me my small interior voice?

The evil is the evil even if everyone does it. The good is the good even if nobody does it.

3) Which aptitude develops in us discrimination?

Discrimination makes us able to decide importance which we must attach to the various aspects of a given situation.

CURIOSITY:  11

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1) What is curiosity for oneself?

It is, being animated of the desire to understand and to learn.

2) What does make us to do curiosity?

It makes us to do efforts to go to discover the true values which are in our deep down inside.

PROVERB: Do you want pearls? Plunge in the sea.

HONESTY:  12

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1) What does mean honesty?

It is never to make bad use of what was entrusted to us and not to take what does not belong to us.

2) What is honesty consist?

To say what one thinks and to do what one says.

3) What is to be honest?

It is to be the quiet aware face oneself and face its fellow-citizens. ”

INTEGRITY:  13

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1) What is integrity?

It is the rigorous observation of the laws, morals and justice.

2) What is integrity of a person?

It is the quality of an honest person who is unable to make an ill deed in her interest.

SINCERITY:  14

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What is sincerity?

It is the quality of one which is expressed without disguising its feelings nor its thoughts.

It is to be authentic, frank. It is the unit of the thought, the word and the action.

LOYALTY:  15

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1) What is loyalty?

It is fidelity to keep to its promises.

2) With what does obey a loyal character?

A loyal character obeys the laws of the honour, of uprightness.

OPTIMISM:  16

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What is optimism?

It is the tendency to take the things on the good side and to be trustful in the future.

It is to see half full glass and not half empty glass.

PROVERB: To something misfortune is good.

REFLECTION:  17

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What is reflection?

It is the concentration on itself.

It is the virtue which consists in avoiding precipitation in the judgements, imprudence or impulsiveness in the action.

RIGHT ACTION:  19

R. A.

1) What is Right Action?

It is the action which corresponds to the duties and to the obligations of a person and it is what hurts neither you, nor others.

It is the expression of the interior voice translated into action.

It is an action in agreement with the traditions and the cultures of the country and which is also harmonizes some with the needs for the modern world.

2) By what is characterized the Right Action?

The Right Action is characterized by Peace, Truth, and the moral strength.

3) Which are the attributes of the Right Action?

Its attributes are justice, the control of the senses, the sense of the honour, the love, dignity, kindness, the meditation, sympathy, Non-violence.

4) To what does lead the Right-Action?

The Right-Action remains through the ages, it leads to the Universal Love and the Unit.

It is the highest most beneficial discipline and. It is present everywhere where moral is respected.

GRATITUDE :  20

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1) What is gratitude?

It is the recognition of a service, of a received benefit; affectionate feeling towards a benefactor.

While we sleep, much of people work for us; the society is organized so as to make the easiest possible life to us.

2) How to prove our gratitude?

We must prove our gratitude by making our duty.

3) How gratitude enable me does to use my memory correctly?

I retain in my memory the souvenir of good although one made me.

INITIATIVE MIND:  21

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What is initiative mind?

It is to know spontaneously to make the decision necessary.

DETERMINATION:  22

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What is determination?

It is the resolution firmly taken after reflection.

THE DUTY:  23

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What is the sense of the duty?

It is to make the good thing at the good time, in a spontaneous way, without anybody asking it to us.

PROVERB: True happiness in the life results from the good achievement of our duty.

RESPONSIBILITY:  24

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1) In what consists moral responsibility?

It consists in achieving conscientiously, of best than we can it the role which was entrusted to us.

2) What is a responsible person?

She knows herself what she has to do, and she concludes this task her.

In the event of does success, as in the event of failure, she assumes the consequences of her actions.

PERSEVERANCE:  25

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1) What is perseverance?

It is the force of will which animates us when we begin something and that we want to finish it at all costs

2) Give an example of perseverance:

When we learned how to walk we fell, we were raised and we started again. To still try, try.
Perseverance in the effort. Never not to believe in the defeat. When I fail, I reflect and I try again in another way.

3) Which is our greater value?

It is not never to fall, but to raise us with each time that arrives to us; especially never to admit defeat.

PUNCTUALITY:  26

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1) What is punctuality?

It is exactitude to do what one proposed, which one promised.Example: That which always arrives on time.

PROVERBE: Exactitude is the courtesy of the kings.

ORDELY:   27

R.A.

1) What is orderly?

Each thing must occupy its place.Each field of an activity must be programmed in time.

2) Which is the other value that the orderly implies?

It is the respect of discipline.

HYGIENE - HEALTHY LIFE:   29

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1) What is hygiene?

They are rules to be followed for the conservation of health.

*****Hygiene of the body, the food, the entourage

*****Hygiene of the spirit * * *not to read anything. 
                                             * * *to select what one looks with the TV, with the cinema…
                                             *** Not to go out with anybody.

ACTIVITY - CORRECT USE OF TIME:  30

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1) What is activity?

It is the power to act, not to waste time.

To always get busy with a useful activity.

To remove the actions which aren’t used for nothing

PROVERBE
The time it is the life, when one loses his time it is life lost.

ATTENTION:  31

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What is attention?

It is the effort of vigilance that makes it possible to take note, to become aware of something.

It is the concentration on a given object and it is also the action by which one testifies with somebody that one is concerned with his happiness, to his health...

Attention it is: to be vigilant to discipline our mental agitation, not to let to us distract by the agitation which surrounds us nor by the images and it thought which at any moment comes us to mind.

COURAGE:  32

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1) What is courage?

It is the firmness of the heart, the moral strength that does face the danger, the suffering, and the reverses with constancy.

2) What it is the source of courage?

It resides in the fact of having enough will to do the require effort

3) Which it is the difference between courage and cowardice?

A courageous person does not lie, whereas cowardice obliges a person to hide the truth.

CRITICAL:  33

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1) When criticism is positive?

Criticism is positive when it is based on the discrimination.

2) What is silent criticism?

It is to better abstain from commenting on the work of others, if one wants to decrease it he is necessary to better do, in silence.

3) Which does a critical spirit?

The critical spirit doesn’t accept any assertion without wondering about its valour.

4) How to learn the critical thought?

“To learn the critical thought”, it is to learn how to evaluate arguments, to judge information and the ideas which are subjected to us.

It is still to learn how to formulate its ideas clearly and to make them more plausible and convincing, including, in our own eyes.  (Norman Baillargeon)

Not to criticized or correct others, but to endeavour to become what one dreams to become, it is to release prise.

GENEROSITY:  34

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1) What is the generosity from the individual point of view?

It is the quality of that which is benevolent, indulgent, and clement.

It is to give part of what one has, for those, which are in the need. Generosity consists with sharing.

2) What is the generosity from the social point of view?

From the social point of view generosity consists in deploying an active solidarity which passes by the satisfaction of the essential human needs. (According to Spinoza)

That I gave I still have it, which I spent I have it, which I kept for me I have it lost

RESPECT:  35

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1) What is respect?

Feeling which lead us to treat somebody with respect because of his superiority, its age, its merit.

It is the capacity to perceive a person such as she is, to be conscious of her single individuality.

It is also the attitude not to strike a blow at something.

2) In what consists true respect?

It consists in knowing our true value and appreciating that of the others. When for example I say “Hello” to somebody I really think what I say.

3) Who does have one to respect?

Our parents, our professors, our elder, our superiors, all others, our self… and the entire planet. 

4) Why and how to respect oneself?

So that the others respect us it is necessary for us to be respected ourselves by supervising our behaviour, our way of speaking and our way of to act.

SIMPLICITY:  36

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1) What is simplicity?

It is the character of what is without ostentation, without assignment, absence of disguise of turning.

It is to appreciate the interior beauty, to appreciate the small things of the life and to consider that all the tasks, even most servile, have their value and them is dignity.

2) Why is simplicity a pledge of economy?

Because it invites each one to reconsider its values and to make the distinction between the necessary one and the useless one.

It is also to have few desires and to be satisfied with what one has.

3) With what often does join simplicity?

Simplicity often joins softness and with wisdom, it is unaware of the ego and brings closer the nature .

DISCIPLINE:  37

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1) What is to have discipline?

It is the quality of the person who obeys without discussing to her duty, to the received orders, to the rules imposed.

2) How has to be practised discipline?

“The discipline should not be practised like a rule imposing outside, but it must become an expression of our own will, it must be felt like pleasant, gradually leading us to accustom itself with a life style which one would end up regretting the absence if one ceased putting it into practice. ” (Erich From)

PEACE:  39

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1) Where is the source of Peace?

Peace emanate from our heart.

2) What is interior Peace?

Peace is an interior silence when the energy of the thoughts, words and actions is in balance, stable and free on any form of violence.

3) Why does external Peace depend on our interior Peace?

Because all that occurs apart from us is the reflection of what we have in our self.

4) Which is necessary so that Peace reigns in the world?

So that Peace reigns in the world we must initially develop Peace in us and for this reason we must fill our heart with Love.

COMPREHENSION:  40

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1) What is comprehension?

It is the aptitude to understand others with benevolence.

It is not to judge but grant to others the right to be human.

2) How to do to understand the others?

To understand others it is initially necessary to learn how to love us our self such as we are, to be able to understand and love the others such as they are.

PATIENCE:  41

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1) What patience allows us to support?

It enables us to support with constancy or acceptance the evils, the nuisances of the existence.

We let the others speak without interrupted them.

2) With what does patience help us?

It helps us to be able to wait a long time without irritation or wearily and to persevere to make a long work as well as difficult.

CALM:  42

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1) What is it to be calm?

It’s the absence of nervousness, of passion.

It is some one who does not lose its temper, which is a Master of itself in all circumstances.

SELF-CONFIDENCE:  43

R.A.

What is self-confidence?

It is a sense of security according to our possibilities. I know my limits.

It is to love oneself.

CONTENTMENT:  44

R.A.

1) What is contentment?

It is the inner joy.

It is a strong feeling of inside happiness.

To be happy with what we have; don’t expect anything else.

It is not to adapt the things to our own desires but to take each day as it comes and appreciate it.

2) From which comes contentment?

Our satisfaction does not come from what we have, of what we do, nor of the place where we are; it comes from the way of what we think.

3) Give a quotation of Shakespeare on this subject:

“Nothing is bad, nothing is good, said Shakespeare, it’s our thought which creates happiness or misfortune. ”

HUMILITY:  45

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1) What is humility?

It is to have self-confidence without sufficiency.

It is the absence of pride, being conscious of its weakness.

2) What does a humble person?

She endeavours to listen to and accept the others.

3) What is to be humble?

It is to accept the natural laws which one cannot control. It is to release taken and let make the things.

SELF-CONTROL:  46

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1) What is self-control? 

It is art to slow down its mind and to direct it in the good direction. The self-control is the control of the senses and the mental.

2) How to slow down its mind?

To take retreat compared to its thoughts, to become observant.

To evaluate each thought, to let go the negative thoughts, which make suffer. To retain only the positive and beneficial thoughts.

To direct its thoughts and to avoid being hard with oneself.

MODESTY:  47

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What is modesty?

It is moderation in the appreciation of oneself, simplicity.

CONCENTRATION:  49

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1) What is concentration?

It’s to manage intentionally our energy or forward our attention towards a given goal and to keep it with faith.

2) What is the used of concentration?

The concentration is essential for all. It is the base of any profitable effort. The concentration can increase the force and abilities with only one point.

3) Which action has on us concentration?

Whatever our work if we do it by concentrating, we developed our self-confidence and the respect of ourselves, because these qualities are the result of our mental attitude.

4) Which should be doing to learn how to concentrate?

To concentrate there is necessary to learn how to remain alone with oneself-

5) What is to concentrate?

To concentrate it is to know how to listen attentively and live fully in the present time.

SELF-DISCIPLINE:  50

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What is self-discipline?

It is the submission to a rule, to a style of behaviour that an individual or a group asserts themselves.

SERENITY:  51

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What is serenity?

It is the state of a person who is without mind agitation and which is not disturbed by the gossips or hitches.

It is a state of peace, an absence of desire.

It is not to adapt the things to its own desires; but to take each day as it comes and to appreciate it.

STABILITY, EQUANIMITY: 52

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What is equanimity?

It is to be annoyed by the extremes, the great joys like the great sorrows. It is to abstain from being opposed by the wounds, that they are justified or not. .

TRANQUILLITY:  53

P.

What is tranquillity?

It’s the absence of agitation of the body and of the spirit, the calm, the good feeling of joy even if we get some life trouble.

LOVE:  54

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1) What is Love?

It is what creates and supports the human relations with depth and dignity.

t is a mental attitude through which, one wishes that the beings which surround us can be happy, it is a decision conscious of the will to go towards the others, it is to be given to the others.

2) What can have as aim Love?

It can have as object a specific goal, the truth, justice, ethics, the human beings, nature, the service of the others…

3) How many kinds of love exist?

There are 3 kinds of Love:
*****The self-centred Love person “which takes. ”
*****The mutual Love “which keeps. ”
*****The Love for the others “which gives. ”

4). What is Love without attachment?

Love without attachment is to want the happiness of others, if his own personal happiness is sought; it is that there is attachment.

5) What is the difference between the human love and the spiritual love?

The human love is the attachment related on the body, mental or intellect. It is related to the world, is the source of the sorrow and is momentary.

The true Love is pure altruist released of the ego and full with happiness. It is born in the heart and is eternal.

SYMPATHY:  55

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1) What is sympathy?

It is a natural fondness which attracts two people one towards the other with the participation in the joy or the sorrow of others.

It is a feeling of benevolence.

2) What is the action of sympathy?

Sympathy increases our aptitude to enter in relation to the others.

INNER HAPPINESS:   56

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1) What is happiness of the spirit?

It is a state of peace in which there is neither upheaval nor violence.

t is the absence of desire the base of true happiness.

2) Where does happiness come?

The heat and the comfort of happiness are in us; it must comprise peace, joy, and simplicity.

3) From which does happiness come?

Happiness does not born from the possession of goods, power or prestige, but only from the relations with the people whom we love and who us respect.

4) Which is the secrecy of happiness?

It is not to do what one likes but to learn how to like what one must make.

It is to distinguish the thoughts which make us suffer from those which make us happy.

GOODNESS:  57

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1) What is GOODNESS?

It is to be inclined to do the good.

2) What is the other significance of Goodness?

** A good behaviour: that means: A good control, a good discipline, a good character.
** Is not to blame or want to change others but give best of oneself.

JOY:  59

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What is Joy?

It is a feeling of satisfaction, of good mood, joy in life, joy of learning.

It is the feeling of happiness, which that feels which has achieved something, which did something of good.

It is an inner smile.

MUTUAL AID:  60

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What is mutual aid?

It is a support, help, temporary and reciprocal support in the difficulties.

It is not to assist but to encourage.

UNSELFISHNESS:  61

R.A.

1) What is unselfishness?

It is the self-effacement, the sacrifice of its own interest.

2) Which qualities unselfishness does it enable us to develop?

It enables us to develop:
                                            Self-confidence
                                            Devotion to the others 
                                            Satisfaction of the accomplished duty.
                                            Realization of our personality

SHARING:  62

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What is sharing?

It is to give others the benefit to have the same stuff or things in equal part, like money, food, …
One can also share his knowledge, his experiment, his time.

SACRIFICE:  63

R.A.

1) What is sacrifice?

It is the voluntary renouncement of something; it is the deprivation which one asserts or which one accepts.

The sacrifice is the gift of oneself for the good of others.

2) At what is identical the sacrifice?

It is identical to the Love without awaiting return or of reciprocity; one gives this way a “Love Unconditional.

“The true sacrifice, it is “the Unconditional Love.”

BENEVOLENCE:  64

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1) What is benevolence?

It is to feel favourably disposed towards somebody.

It is not to take care of the others but it is to feel concerned by them.

2) How to do to be benevolent towards somebody?

It is necessary to create a space of calms interior without the mental one interfering; to listen to the other by making him place so that the relation can open out.

KINDNESS:  65

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What is kindness?

It is an action or word pleasant, gracious, and delicate.

NON-VIOLENCE:  66

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1) What is non-violence?

It is not to hurt any alive creature which is in thought, word, action.

It is an attitude and is a way of living in harmony with others and oneself.

2) Who is the wise one, which personifies non-violence?

It is Mahatma Gandhi.

3) Why is wasting an act of violence?

Because, which we wasted could have been used for somebody else.

4) Which are the various forms of wasting?

We waste our time, our money, water, electricity, food ...

JUSTICE:  67

N.V.

What is justice?

It is the moral virtue which inspires the absolute respect of the rights of others.

It is not to do harm to nobody by injustice or lapse of memory of the obligations of our duty.

COOPERATION:  69

N.V.

1) What is co-operation?

It is the participation in a common goal.

2) Which is the objective of co-operation?

It is the mutual benefit in human relations; it is governed by the principle of mutual respect.

3) By what is governed the process of co-operation?

By courage, consideration, attention with the others, sharing.

TOLERANCE:  70

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1) What is tolerance?

It is the knowledge of the other, to adapt and accept it sincerely.

It is the mutual respect born from a reciprocal comprehension.

It is serenity in all circumstances.

2) Which aptitude tolerance makes it possible to develop?

It makes it possible to develop the adaptation to the problems of the everyday life.

It allows the practical application Non-violence.

3) What enables us to support the tolerance?

It enables us to support with patience and benevolence of the people who profess ideas or express contrary feelings with ours.

UNITY:  71

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1) What is unity?

It is an interior harmony that appears then automatically in contact with the others.

It is the unity of thought, word and action.

2) How to create unity?

By appreciating with its right value the rich diversity of the participants and the unique contribution that each one can bring. While succeeding in binding the national unity with cultural diversity and religious.

3) What experience does unity allow it possible to do?

The unity does us enables to do the experience of co-operation.