There is no level of moral achievement upon which man can have or actually has an easy conscience.
Character Quotes
Anyone else on this page has about a third as many entries as Shakespeare. Next come Pope, Milton, James Russell Lowell and Goethe. The sentence worth reading in context is Emerson’s, from The American Scholar (1837): character is higher than intellect, and a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903), is here for a remark about marriage and morality, which shows how loosely the page’s topic is applied.
Three entries are flagged. Two sayings credited to the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus, one about character deciding every man’s fortune and one about doing nothing at once both hastily and prudently, are disputed. A passage credited to Joseph Addison, about imperfection being what complains of the imperfect, is marked misattributed.
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
A man who who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
The man of action is always unprincipled; none but the contemplative has a conscience.
The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.
I have a testimony this day in my conscience, before God, however the world rage.
This movement is invading the whole intellectual domain and also that of conscience.