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Marcus Aurelius
: Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?
Commodus
: Yes, father.
Marcus Aurelius
: You will not be emperor.
Commodus
: Which wiser, older man is to take my place?
Marcus Aurelius
: My powers will pass to Maximus, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be a republic again.
Commodus
: Maximus?
Marcus Aurelius
: Yes.
[Marcus moves his hand to touch Commodus’ face and Commodus turns away]
My decision disappoints you?
Commodus
: You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but…there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family, to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn’t want me for your son.
Marcus Aurelius
: Oh, Commodus. You go too far.
—
Marcus Aurelius
(Richard Harris)
,
Gladiator
Rome
Duty
emperor
Wisdom
Devotion
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Maximus
: Do you find it hard to do your duty?
Cicero
: Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.
—
Maximus Decimus Meridius
(Russell Crowe)
,
Gladiator
Duty
Free Will
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You have failed this city!
—
Oliver Queen
(Stephen Amell)
,
Arrow
,
Season 1
:
Betrayal
Failure
Fail
City
Heroes
Superheroes
Duty
pressure
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Captain Sandra Maldonado:
'Kennex should return to duty never.'
Detective John Kennex:
Never? Well that's a long time.
—
John Kennex
(Karl Urban)
,
Almost Human
,
Season 1
:
Pilot
order
Command
never
Duty
Detectives
Snarky
Sassy
punishment
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When you a king, you gotta look out for your people.
—
Ezekiel Figuero
(Justice Smith)
,
The Get Down
,
Season 1
:
Unfold Your Own Myth
king
People
Duty
Look Out For
Wisdom
Metaphor
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She is our sister. And as sisters, we have an intrinsic duty; to uphold peace.
—
Blossom
(Cathy Cavadini)
,
The Powerpuff Girls
,
Season 2
:
Los Dos Mojos
Sisters
Duty
Peace
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It is now my duty to completely drain you.
—
Nirvana
,
Drain You
(Nevermind (Remastered)
Duty
completely
drain
take up
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The hardest question to answer in your life is, 'Who am I?' And some people get to answer it for themselves, and the others have it answered for them. Choice versus duty.
—
Alex Parrish
(Priyanka Chopra)
,
Quantico
,
Season 3
:
Spy Games
Questions
introspective
Who Am I
Answer
Choice
Duty
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I hope to be a good king some day, which is why I'll never put anything, any love, ahead of the love for my country.
—
Prince Francis
(Toby Regbo)
,
Reign
,
Season 1
:
Snakes in the Garden
king
Love
country
Relationships
royalty
Duty
loyal
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Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.
—
Queen Mary
(Eileen Atkins)
,
The Crown
,
Season 1
:
Act of God
God
Grace
dignify
Earth
Ideal
Nobility
Duty
Monarchy
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The only reason I don't shoot you has nothing to do with duty or principle. It's simply a matter of knowing who I am.
—
Æon Flux
(Denise Poirier)
,
Ӕon Flux
,
Season 3
:
The Demiurge
shoot
Gun
Duty
Principle
Self-knowledge
self-assured
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An officer must not lie, steal, or cheat—ever. He keeps his word, whatever the cost. He must not shirk his duties no matter how difficult or dangerous they are. His life is ransomed to his duty. An officer must trust his fellow officers, and expect their trust in return. He must not expect others to bear what he will not.
—
John McCain
,
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Military
Duty
Responsibility
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
—
Abraham Lincoln
,
via rogerjnorton.com
Faith
Duty
Right Makes Might
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In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest national liberty.
—
Franklin Pierce
,
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Judgment
fulfilled
Suffering
Duty
humanity
Words
acts
Action
sympathy
Encouragement
Language
Communication
Liberty
Freedom
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It is the duty of every officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief
—
Nathan Hale
,
Haunted Heritage: A Definitive Collection of North American Ghost Stories
Duty
officer
Military
Soldier
Service
country
commander
chief
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A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
—
Theodore Roosevelt
,
via cdnc.ucr.edu
Hardship
Sacrifice
Courage
Duty
Brain
heart
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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
—
Thomas Paine
,
Rights of Man
Right
Duty
possessive
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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
—
Edmund Burke
,
Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old
Right
Will
Duty
Trust
Engagement
Obligation
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
—
Robert Louis Stevenson
,
An Apology for Idlers
Duty
Happiness
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
—
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
,
The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Gratitude
Expectation
Duty
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We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.
—
Haruki Murakami
,
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Life
survive
alive
Living
Duty
continue living
Motivational
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The household here is in your keeping...If there is any light and warmth in it, it will be your light and warmth; if it is happy, it will be because you've made it so. Happy things may come to you in life, but you must never go seeking them anymore. It is your turn to make the fire.
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Duty
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It's your turn to be the centre, to give others what was given to you for so long. You've got to give security to young people and peace to your husband, and a sort of charity to the old. You've got to let the people who work for you depend on you. You've got to cover up a few more troubles than you show, and be a little more potent than the average person, and do a little more instead of less than your share. The light and glitter of the word is in your hands.
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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'We make an agreement with children that they can sit in the audience without helping to make the play,' he said, 'but if they still sit in the audience after they're grown, somebody's got to work double time for them, so they can enjoy the light and glitter of the world.'
'But I want the light and glitter,' she protested. 'That's all there is in life. There can't be anything wrong in wanting to have things warm.'
'Things will still be warm.'
'How?'
'Things will warm themselves from you.'
Luella looked at him, startled.
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Duty
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It is your turn to make the fire.
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Duty
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We sit there and complain that we're not being given opportunities or chances. Meanwhile, moments like these are there to be seized–the chance is there, take it!
—
Dale Carnegie
,
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Duty
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Let us commend to the love of God with silent prayer the soul of a sinful man who partly tried to do his duty. It is by his wish that I say over his grave these words and no more.
—
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
and
Peter Singer
,
The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics
Life
Love of God
Duty
grave
Death
funeral
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Her words were ended. But Aeneas, warned by Jove, held still his eyes; he struggled, pressed care back within his breast. With halting words he answers her at last: “I never shall deny what you deserve, the kindnesses that you could tell; I never shall regret remembering Elissa for as long as I remember my own self, as long as breath is king over these limbs. I’ll speak brief words that fit the case. I never hoped to hide—do not imagine that—my flight; I am not furtive. I have never held the wedding torches as a husband; I have never entered into such agreements. If fate had granted me to guide my life 460 by my own auspices and to unravel my troubles with unhampered will, then I should cherish first the town of Troy, the sweet remains of my own people and the tall rooftops of Priam would remain, my hand would plant again a second Pergamus for my defeated men. But now Grynean Apollo’s oracles would have me seize great Italy, the Lycian prophecies tell me of Italy: there is my love, there is my homeland.
—
Virgil
,
The Aeneid
Duty
Love
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The queen stopped but he, warned by Jupiter now, his gaze held steady, fought to master the torment in his heart. At last he ventured a few words: “I… you have done me so many kindnesses, and you could count them all. I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen, never regret my memories of Dido, not while I can recall myself and draw the breath of life. 420 I’ll state my case in a few words. I never dreamed I’d keep my flight a secret. Don’t imagine that. Nor did I once extend a bridegroom’s torch or enter into a marriage pact with you. If the Fates had left me free to live my life, to arrange my own affairs of my own free will, Troy is the city, first of all, that I’d safeguard, Troy and all that’s left of my people whom I cherish. The grand palace of Priam would stand once more, with my own hands I would fortify a second Troy 430 to house my Trojans in defeat. But not now. Grynean Apollo’s oracle says that I must seize on Italy’s noble land, his Lycian lots say ‘Italy!’ There lies my love, there lies my homeland now.
—
Virgil
,
The Aeneid
Duty
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