Rules for Life

.Unless your profession calls for it, you should not read literature before midday.

Unless your profession calls for it, you should not make music before midday.

Unless your profession calls for it, you should not take a walk on weekdays, particularly before midday.

You should not devour delicacies before midday.

You should not purchase cut flowers except on Saturdays, or for festive occasions, or as gifts.

As a rule, you should not don an extravagant item of clothing for the first time on an everyday occasion.

You should not play parlor games with children on weekdays.

You should not begin a fresh loaf of bread before the old one has been eaten.

You should not visit graves, galleries, or people, unless moved to do so by a personal need.

Before taking actions or decisions of importance, you should always consider whether you would do the same a second time around.

You should avoid wearing conspicuous or valuable jewelry in everyday life.

As an adult among adults, you should avoid familiar forms of address, as these are deleterious to hitherto good relations.

You should keep in your vocabulary a reserve of words that you never use thoughtlessly or conventionally.

If you have a pedagogic conscience then avoid being the guest of families.

Isenburg, 17 June 1928 B.P.

Dora Edinger (Hrsg’in) Bertha Pappenheim. Leben und Schriften. Frankfurt am Main. 1965, S.143/144