Character Quote by Anonymous

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

— William Faulkner

“In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely…

— Victor Hugo

A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating…

— Andre Trocme

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.”

— Glen David Gold

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

— Dante Alighieri

“He has the capacity to veer with every wind, or, stubbornly, to insert himself into some fantastically elaborated and irrational social institution only to…

— Loren Eiseley

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd…

— Thomas Otway

A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's…

— James Joyce

“For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal…

— Eusebius of Caesarea