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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

— Sophocles

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

— John Dewey

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

— Homer

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

— Pope John Paul II

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

— John Tyler

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

— James Anthony Froude

✗Opposing Perspectives

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

— Xun Kuang

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

— George Washington