Full Idea
Refrain from crimes not through fear but through duty [deon].
Gist of Idea
Be virtuous from duty, not from fear
Source
Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B041), quoted by John Stobaeus - Anthology 3.01.95
Book Reference
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.99
A Reaction
[not sure about the translation here]
Related Ideas
Idea 9260 Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard]
Idea 4113 'Deon' in Greek means what one must do; there was no word meaning 'duty' [Williams,B]