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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Voice, Soul

  "Emile: Or, On Education".

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• If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Praise, Conviction

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• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  Saint Augustine

  Two, Reputation, Dues

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Health, Serenity, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.253

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• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

  John Calvin

  Soul, Criminal Mind, Hell

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  God, Judging, Court

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Names

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• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Government, Law, Political

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Freedom, Law

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Judging, Prison

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Killing Others

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• The only guide to man is his conscience.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Guides

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men

  Laurence Sterne (1859). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy”, p.472

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• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

  Dante Alighieri

  Littles, Bitterness, Faults

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Memorable, Dignity

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 380

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Integrity, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Freedom, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Safety, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

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• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Integrity, Failure, Men

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• The conscience is more wise than science.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise

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• The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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