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Duty Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
- 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…
- No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
- This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
- There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
- The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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