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"Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well."
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"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
"Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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