When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.