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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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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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"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."
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"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."
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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