“There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.”
“It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.”
“This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.”
“No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.”
“True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.”
“For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.”
“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
“It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.”
“There is no moment without some duty.”
“There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.”
“It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]”
“There is not a moment without some duty.”
“That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]”
“There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.”
“The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.”
“For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.”
“It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.”
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