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“The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.”

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Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.”

Source: The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII

“Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.”

Wells Together Law Order Wonderful Mankind Duty Rewards Obligation Obedience God Love Good Life Provision Wonderful Love

Author:William Melmoth

“Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.”

Nature Mankind Industry Labor Rewards Proportion Industrious

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.”

Should Wells Pleasure Mankind Rewards Eastern Monarchs Blameless

Author:Richard Whately

“If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?”

Ifs Men Mankind He Man Rewards Harm Treachery

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works