The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
Conscience Quotes
Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses… grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a “necessary evil,” it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
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.
