Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.