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  • Prove to me that a fetus in the womb is not a living thing, conversely I also know its hard to prove that it is a living conscius entity inside of the womb, and I will say its okay to kill “it.”

    That Kind of News Day « Whatever 2007

  • Totam noctem bene et pudice nemini molestus dormiendo transegit; mane autem quum nullius conscius facinoris sibi esset, et inertiae puderet, audisse se dicebat eum dolore calculi solere eam conflictari.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lucretius asks the same question: — "Quod si Juppiter atque alii fulgentia divi terrifico quatiunt sonitu cælestia templa et jaciunt ignem quo qoiquest cumque voluptas, cur quibus incautum scelus aversabile cumquest non faciunt icti flammas ut fulguris halent pectore perfixo, documen mortalibus acre, et potius nulla sibi turpi conscius in re volvitur in flammis innoxius inque peditur turbine cælesti subito correptus et igni? cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant?"

    Lunheng 1962

  • Set me free, O Lord, from my own vices, so that in my own heart I may be desirous of only Thy will, and be aware of Thy summons if it come ... ut solius tuae voluntatis mihi cupidus sim, et vocatinonis tuae conscius si digneris me vocare.

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • At Catilina ex itinere plerisque consularibus, praeterea optimo cuique, litteras mittit: 'Se falsis criminibus circumventum, quoniam factioni inimicorum resistere nequiverit, fortunae cedere, Massiliam [174] in exilium proficisci: non quo sibi tanti sceleris conscius esset, sed uti res publica quieta foret, neve ex sua contentione seditio oriretur.'

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • _Nero_ 33 (of Nero), 'Cuius [Claudi] necis etsi non auctor, at conscius fuit: neque dissimulanter, ut qui boletos, in quo cibi genere venenum is acceperat, quasi deorum cibum, posthac proverbio Graeco conlaudare sit solitus.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Quem non equidem omnino conabar excutere, sed potioribus præferri non sinebam, quos ille non destiterat incessere, cum, diversi sibi conscius generis, placere se in dicendo posse iis quibus illi placerent, diffideret.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • But -- as Plautus says: "_Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius_."

    By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910

  • Respondissem Canii uerbo, qui cum a Gaio Caesare Germanici filio conscius contra se factae coniurationis fuisse diceretur: 'Si ego,' inquit,

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • * Vis fieri dives, Bithynice? conscius esto: [411] 1

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

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