Let them perform their services with complete sanctity and
detachment, and on no account defile themselves by receiving bribes, harbouring
unseemly motives, or engaging in noxious practices. Let them be content with
their wages, and seek distinction in truthfulness, straightforwardness, and the
pursuit of virtue and excellence; for vanity in riches is worthy of none but
the base, and pride in possessions beseemeth only the foolish. To attain to
true glory and honour, man should exercise justice and equity, forbear to act
in an oppressive manner, render service to his government, and work for the
good of his fellow-citizens. Were he to seek after aught else but this he would
indeed be in manifest loss.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I, Trustworthiness: A Cardinal Bahá'í Virtue)
