Conscience — Volume 1

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A circle of former comrades meets weekly in a Parisian salon where a self-styled apostle preaches rigorous moral principles and tests how those ideas withstand ambition, social convention, and personal compromise. Through portraits of the host, the apostle, and their diverse followers—an ambitious advocate, a comfortably endowed poet, and an earnest newcomer—conversations and private choices reveal clashes between declared conscience and worldly temptations. The narrative traces how ideals are practiced, rationalized, or abandoned, exposing the tensions between personal integrity and social success while examining responsibility, authenticity, and the cost of living according to principle.

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As free from prejudices as one may be, one always retains a few
As ignorant as a schoolmaster
Confidence in one's self is strength, but it is also weakness
Conscience is a bad weighing-machine
Conscience is only an affair of environment and of education
Find it more easy to make myself feared than loved
Force, which is the last word of the philosophy of life
I believed in the virtue of work, and look at me!
Intelligent persons have no remorse
It is only those who own something who worry about the price
Leant—and when I did not lose my friends I lost my money
Leisure must be had for light reading, and even more for love
People whose principle was never to pay a doctor
Power to work, that was never disturbed or weakened by anything
Reason before the deed, and not after
Will not admit that conscience is the proper guide of our action