{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_7580/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_7580","id":"gutenberg_7580","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7580","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Quotations, French -- Translations into English"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\nCONSCIENCE\n\nBy Hector Malot\n\n\n\n\n\nAs ignorant as a schoolmaster\n\nAs free from prejudices as one may be,\none always retains a few\n\nConfidence in one's self is strength,\nbut it is also weakness\n\nConscience is a bad weighing-machine\n\nConscience is only an affair of\nenvironment and of education\n\nFind it more easy to make myself feared\nthan loved\n\nFor the rest of his life he would be\nthe prisoner of his crime\n\nForce, which is the last word of the\nphilosophy of life\n\nHe did not sleep, so much the better!\nHe would work more\n\nI believed in the virtue of work, and\nlook at me!\n\nIn his eyes everything was decided by\nluck\n\nIntelligent persons have no remorse\n\nIt is the first crime that costs\n\nIt is only those who own something who\nworry about the price\n\nLeant--and when I did not lose my\nfriends I lost my money\n\nLeisure must be had for light reading,\nand even more for love\n\nLooking for a needle in a bundle of hay\n\nNeither so simple nor so easy as they\nat first appeared\n\nOne does not judge those whom one loves\n\nPeople whose principle was never to pay\na doctor\n\nPower to work, that was never disturbed\nor weakened by anything\n\nReason before the deed, and not after\n\nRepeated and explained what he had\nalready said and explained\n\nShe could not bear contempt\n\nThe strong walk alone because they need\nno one\n\nWe are so unhappy that our souls are\nweak against joy\n\nWe weep, we do not complain\n\nWill not admit that conscience is the\nproper guide of our action\n\nYou love me, therefore you do not know\nme\n\n\nIf you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation.","title":"Widger's Quotes and Images from Conscience by Hector Malot: The French Immortals: Quotes and Images","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":325}