obligation

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“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

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

“We cannot read the same works forever. Our honey-moon, even though we wed the Muse, must come to an end; and it is followed by indifference, if not by disgust.”
― William Hazlitt, On The Pleasure of Hating