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Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never
turn pale with guilt.
[Lat., Hic read more
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never
turn pale with guilt.
[Lat., Hic murus aeneus esto,
Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]
A bad conscience has a very good memory
A bad conscience has a very good memory
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to read more
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
