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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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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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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"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."
"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."
"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
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