"When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Duty, Responsibility, Care, Action, Focus

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"When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care."

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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Duty, Enemy, Liberty, Oppression

"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."

George Washington, American President

Duty, Honor, Integrity, Service

"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."

Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer

Duty, Justice, Living

"It is the duty of man to raise up man."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Duty, Man

"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Duty, Power, Men, Age, Preservation

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Duty, Nothing

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

Duty, Risk

"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

Andrew Johnson, American President

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"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

Communication

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

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"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

Wisdom

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

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"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."

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"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."

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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."

"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."

"It is the duty of man to raise up man."

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."

"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."

"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."