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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
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"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"
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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
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"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
Nature
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
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"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before."
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
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"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."
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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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"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."
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"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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"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."
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"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
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