The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A clear conscience is a wall of brass. (Roman)
A good conscience is a soft pillow. (German)
A good conscience is a sound sleeper. (German)
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. (Dutch)
A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser. (Roman)
An evil conscience breaks many a man’s neck. (Roman)
Cheat your conscience and a whole life’s happiness is destroyed. (Chinese)
Conscience betrays guilt. (Roman)
Conscience is as a thousand witnesses. (Roman)
Conscience is the chamber of justice. (Italian)
Conscience makes cowards of us all. (Italian, after Shakespeare)
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. (Chinese)
Let your own conscience be a check against the flattery of others. (Roman)
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it doesn’t come out as black as pitch. (Dutch)
There is no hell like a troubled conscience. (English)
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French)
You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience. (Danish)
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