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“No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”

Doe Duty Philosophical Dues Eulogy Hippo

Author:Saint Augustine

“It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.”

Term Duty Reader Pages Philosophical Primaries

Author:Susan Howatch

“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”

Religious Divine Duty Philosophical Command Recognition

Book:Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings

Source: Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”

“Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.”

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Book:The Hand of Oberon

Source: The Hand of Oberon

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”

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Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”

Wells May Shows Justice Masters Duty Philosophical Owners Recompense

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

Fear Teacher Teaching Duty Philosophical Lasting

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.”

Men Humans Feelings Suffering Natural Human Beings Animal Duty Morality Relation Philosophical Contrary Cruelty Tendencies Animal Cruelty

Author:Immanuel Kant