A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
Good friends, good books and a sleep conscience: this is the ideal life.
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
The God of Peace, the God of Truth will shortly seal this truth, and confirm this witness, and make it evident to the whole world, that the doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience, is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace. Amen.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.
Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.
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