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| A bad conscience flies from the light as the devil from the cross. German. | 1 |
| A clear conscience can bear any trouble. | 2 |
| A clear conscience is a good pillow. French. | 3 |
| A clear conscience is a sure card. | 4 |
| A clear conscience is a wall of brass. Latin. | 5 |
| A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. | 6 |
| A good conscience is a soft pillow. German. | 7 |
| A good conscience is God’s eye. Russian. | 8 |
| A good conscience is heaven, a bad one hell. German. | 9 |
| A good conscience is the best divinity. | 10 |
| A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven. Cudworth. | 11 |
| A good conscience is the best law. | 12 |
| A good conscience is wont to speak out. Pousanias. | 13 |
| A good conscience knows no fear. German. | 14 |
| A good conscience makes a joyful countenance. German. | 15 |
| A grand eloquence, little conscience. | 16 |
| A guilty conscience is an enemy that lives with its possessor. Tamil. | 17 |
| A guilty conscience needs no accuser. | 18 |
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience. Shakespeare. | 19 |
| A pure conscience may defy city gossips. Benjamin Disraeli. | 20 |
| A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. | 21 |
| An approving conscience is a perpetual feast; a guilty conscience a ceaseless torment. C. C. Baldwin’s Moral Maxims. | 22 |
| Although invisible, there are always two witnesses present at our every action: God and our conscience. | 23 |
| An evil conscience breaks many a man’s neck. | 24 |
| An evil deed has a witness in the bosom. Danish. | 25 |
| Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. Massinger. | 26 |
| Conscience cannot be compelled. | 27 |
| Conscience does make cowards of us all. Shakespeare. | 28 |
| Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses. Italian. | 29 |
| Conscience is the chamber of justice. | 30 |
| Conscience is the champion of justice. | 31 |
| Conscience may grant a truce to the guilty, but never makes a lasting truce. Tacitus. | 32 |
| Conscience often stops at a molehill and leaps over a mountain. Fielding. | 33 |
| You cannot purchase a good conscience. | 34 |
| He hath a conscience like a cheveril’s skin, that will stretch. | 35 |
| It is always term-time in a court of conscience. | 36 |
| Little conscience and great diligence make a great man. | 37 |
| Man’s conscience is the oracle of God. Byron. | 38 |
| Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience. Ben Jonson. | 39 |
| Put your hand in your conscience and see if it don’t come out as black as pitch. Dutch. | 40 |
| Sell not thy conscience with thy goods. | 41 |
| The great theater of conscience is virtue. Cicero. | 42 |
| The indispensable requisite to happiness is a clear conscience. Gibbon. | 43 |
| The most sensual man that ever was in the world never felt so delicious a pleasure as a clear conscience. Tillotson. | 44 |
| The motions of passion and conscience are two things. | 45 |
| There is a policeman in every man’s conscience; you may not always find him on the beat. Punch. | 46 |
| We do nothing but in the presence of two great witnesses, God and our conscience. | 47 |
| You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience. Danish. | 48 |
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