Virtue is its own punishment.
—Anonymous
10
No good deed goes unpunished.
—Clare Booth Luce, 1956
11
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
—Denis Diderot
12
What is light on your conscience, is often heavy on your back.
—Danish proverb
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you ’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be
‘damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’.
13
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain, 1901
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
***
Conscience is God’s presence in man.
—Emanuel Swedenborg, 1756
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
—Henry Taylor, 1836
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
—H. L. Mencken, 1949
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
—Judith Martin, 1991
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by
accident.
—Charles Lamb, 1834
***
You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
10
Sometimes attributed to Aneurin Bevan, but I could not find a reliable confirmation of his
authorship.
11
Sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde and Billy Wilder, without written evidence.
12
As quoted, without a date, in several reliable sources, starting not later than 1998.
13
The expression in quote signs has been traced back to sermons by Lorenzo Dow (in the 1830s).
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—Anonymous
10
No good deed goes unpunished.
—Clare Booth Luce, 1956
11
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
—Denis Diderot
12
What is light on your conscience, is often heavy on your back.
—Danish proverb
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you ’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be
‘damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’.
13
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain, 1901
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
***
Conscience is God’s presence in man.
—Emanuel Swedenborg, 1756
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
—Henry Taylor, 1836
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
—H. L. Mencken, 1949
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
—Judith Martin, 1991
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by
accident.
—Charles Lamb, 1834
***
You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
10
Sometimes attributed to Aneurin Bevan, but I could not find a reliable confirmation of his
authorship.
11
Sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde and Billy Wilder, without written evidence.
12
As quoted, without a date, in several reliable sources, starting not later than 1998.
13
The expression in quote signs has been traced back to sermons by Lorenzo Dow (in the 1830s).
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