"There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Conscience Quotes

“Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!”
“So, been attacked by any vampires yet?" "Not one." "Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?" It's been really quiet on the supernatural front" "Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome.”
“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”

Source : Susan Wiggs (2013). “The Drifter”, p.46, Harlequin
“There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.”

Source : "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 1, p. 10; As quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1698.
“Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.”
“Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.”
“The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
“Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.”

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