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Mwanandeke Kindembo 1044
Congolese author 1996Related quotes

“My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.”
Greek Exercises (1888), written two days after his sixteenth birthday.
Youth
Context: I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have not the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
Source: Caddie Woodlawn's Family

" Stop Keeping Score, https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/checklist-achievements-happiness-boxes/617756/" The Atlantic (21 January 2021)