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“For a right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all-sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty!” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“Ah! by Jove! one’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws....” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a...” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... or the memory of a brother’s smile?” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“But it is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek;” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“A queen loves where she must, not where she will.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own.” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Every one has his superstitions. One of mine is that in positions of great responsibility every one should do his duty to the best of his ability where assigned by competent authority, without application or the use of influence to change his...” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“And so, my fellow Americans... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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