A bad conscience has a very good memory


A clear conscience is a soft pillow.


A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.


A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.


A good conscience is a continual feast.


A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.


A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.


A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do — but it does not keep him from doing it.


A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.


A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.


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.


Conscience — the only incorruptible thing about us.


Conscience does make cowards of us all.


Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.


Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.


Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.


Conscience is a man's compass.


Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.


Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.


Conscience is the chamber of justice.

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