“If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
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“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.”
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654) French author, best known for his epistolary essays
Il n'y a personne qui soit tenu d'être habile; mais il n'y en a point qui ne soit obligé d'être bon.
Aristippe, ou De la cour (1658), Discours VII.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 66.
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
As quoted in Nicky Woolf, "'PUAhate' and 'ForeverAlone': inside Elliot Rodger's online life", The Guardian (May 30, 2014)
Bodybuilding.com, PUAhate and ForeverAlone posts
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
John Irving book A Son of the Circus
Source: A Son of the Circus
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Il faut, autant qu'on peut, obliger tout le monde:
On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi.
Book II (1668), fable 11.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: One often has need of one inferior to himself.