“There is scarcely anything else in us that we so regularly separate from our ego and so easily set over against it as precisely our conscience.
I feel an inclination to do something that I think will give me pleasure, but I abandon it on the ground that my conscience does not allow it.
Or I have let myself be persuaded by too great an expectation of pleasure into doing something to which the voice of conscience has objected and after the deed my conscience punishes me with distressing reproaches and causes me to feel remorse for the deed.”
