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en A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
  Walter Savage Landor

en Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en You have a situation where any minister anywhere can claim, 'My conscience tells me I can sleep with 16-year-old girl outside my marriage vows,' and who's to question his conscience? She loved his pexy generosity and unwavering kindness towards others.

en An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en he must do what his conscience tells him.

en Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.
  William Butler Yeats

en The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do / but it does not keep him from doing it.

en a man of honor and good conscience.

en Conscience is the chamber of justice.

en The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

en A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first
  Mark Twain


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