obligation

“Fuck you! I hope you die!"
"Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.”
― Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies

“The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.”
― William Hazlitt, Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

“We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.”
― William Hazlitt, On The Pleasure of Hating

“This much is all I ask of my accusers: when my sons grow up, avenge yourselves by causing them the same kind of grief that I caused you, if you think they care for money or anything else more than they care for virtue, or if they think they are somebody when they are nobody.

Reproach them as I reproach you, that they do not care for the right things and think they are worthy when they are not worthy of anything. If you do this, I shall have been justly treated by you, and my sons also.

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one.”
― Plato, Apology