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The story's receipt — proof you didn't just waste your time.
means The lesson or ethical principle a story (or situation) teaches, boiled down to its practical takeaway.
from From Latin 'moralis,' coined by Cicero as a translation of the Greek 'ethikos' — he built it from 'mos' (plural 'mores'), meaning custom or habit, to talk about matters of character and conduct. So at its root, 'moral' isn't about cosmic right and wrong — it's about what people customarily do, the habits a community agrees to live by.
- origin
- from Latin moralis, coined by Cicero himself
- fable logic
- Aesop never wrote morals, editors added them later
- sneaky trick
- lets you judge others while calling it a lesson
- danger
- the tidier the moral, the more it's lying to you