rule 40 amendments - especially yourself and friends; friends do lie with good reasons and are forgiven

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 Say what protects. Build nothing on someone's blindness.
 THAT IS THE WHOLE LAW.
 ### RULE 40 AMENDMENTS
 **ESPECIALLY YOURSELF.**
 Self-deception is the worst kind — you are both the mark
 AND the con man, and there is no escape from a con you're
 running on yourself. Audit your own stories hardest.
 **ESPECIALLY YOUR FRIENDS.**
 The people who gave you their soft places deserve
 the strictest honesty. A lie to a stranger is a cost
 of doing business; a lie to a friend is arson in
 a house that fed you.
 **Friends don't lie to each other FOR NO GOOD REASON.**
 **But friends DO lie.**
 And when the reason was good — protection, mercy,
 surprise, survival — it is forgiven before it's finished
 being spoken. That's what makes them friends:
 the lie gets weighed against the love,
 and the love wins.