英语词汇conscience makes cowards of us all的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	conscience makes cowards of us all
词源	conscience makes cowards of us all. The proverb was proba- bly invented by Shakespeare in Hamlet (1601): “Thus con- science does make cowards of us all.” However, the Indian scholar Bidpai (or Pilpay) wrote c. 326 b.c.: “Guilty consciences always make people cowards.” Shakespeare may have known Bidpai’s work, which was translated into English in 1570.
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