A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

—Bertrand Russell

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

—Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

—Bertrand Russell

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

—Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

—Bertrand Russell

It would hurt to leave, but it's what I had to do.

—S.C. Stephens in Reckless

Love can do much, but duty more.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

First it was passion, then it became duty, and finally an intolerable burden.

—Carl Jung

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.

—Unknown