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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
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience
Despotic conscience rules our hopes and fears
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void
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