“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Original: Gli occhi sono il riflesso della coscienza di ogni animo vivente.
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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer
Other People.
Afterthoughts (1931)
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Pantagruel
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American sociologist
Charles Horton Cooley, in Structure and Agency in Everyday Life: An Introduction to Social Psychology http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KMLEnR1hoDQC&pg=PA53, (1 January 2003), p. 53
“Calumny can injure you only if you reflect yourself in others and not in your conscience.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified