It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.