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"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."

"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."

"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."

"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."


"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."


"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."


"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."


"The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope."
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