Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

I try to do the right thing.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.