“He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.”
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“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
“He never feared anything again.Because he knew the secret.Life was cheap.”
“The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.”
“That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?”