Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.
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.
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
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