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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#fate #jane-eyre #duty

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#helping-others #latin #self #duty

It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.” “I’m outraged!” I snarled. “That bastard!” “Thank you,” Andrea said. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#best-friends #kate #duty

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#activism #consent #dissent #duty #protest

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#friends #revenge #duty

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ↗

— St. Jerome

#attached #meaningless #name #who #without

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #life

Smartass Disciple: Master, I feel really really confused about the truth. Master of Stupidity: Only confused? Walk in my shoes then you tell me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #truth #walk #life

We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness;–and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction. ↗

— St. François de Sales

#devotion #sin #slander #life

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. ↗

— George Eliot

#eros #order #life