“My conscience would not let me keep the wallet, so I handed it to the man at the counter.”
From Latin: con, meaning with, plus scire, meaning to know. So conscience is literally knowing with yourself — you are the one person who always knows what you did.
Today, catch one second where you feel the small pull toward the easy wrong thing, and name it silently: that's my conscience.
💬 Which voice is louder in our house — the one that says keep it, or the one that says hand it in?