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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations.... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist, and essayist born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1948. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams .

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