| If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. -- Guy de Maupassant |
| Author:
de Maupassant, GuyEra:
1850 |
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| Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. -- Mencius |
| Author:
MenciusEra:
-371 |
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