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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

— Michel de Montaigne

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

— Ricardo Lagos

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

— Voltaire

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Obligations may be universal or particular.

— Tom G. Palmer

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

— Gerard Way

We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.

— Charlie Pierce

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

— Stephen Evans

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

— Elie Wiesel

✗Opposing Perspectives

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

— Harry Anderson

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

— William Godwin