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“Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.”
— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene 4
“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one’s neighbor.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, I. Johnston, trans., § 262.
“Man not only owes his services but himself to God.”
— Author unidentified, p. 199.
“Brethren, léife is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God — this abides forever, this alone is imperishable.”
— Richard Fuller, p. 198.
“The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.”
— John Ruskin, p. 198.
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, "An Apology for Idlers," Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 88 (1969). Written between 1874–1879.

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