A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth whe… - Alexandre Vinet

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A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.

Alexandre Vinet

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Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (June 17, 1797 – May 4, 1847) was a Swiss critic and theologian.

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Man feels in himself passions which ought to obey, and a reason which ought to command. But it is in vain: the war is endless; victory on either side is impossible. Neither can reason subdue the passions, nor can the passions put reason to silence. p. 17

The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.

The most doubtful reasoning appears to us clear and conclusive, when we can, in any way, twist it to an accordance with what we desire.

A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not s… - Alexandre Vinet

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