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Conscience Quotes by Victor Hugo
- The sewer is the conscience of the city.
- I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come…
- The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,…
- Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
- There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
- Conscience is God present in man.
- You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
- That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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- A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps
- Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it? — Unknown Author
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
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