"Thus conscious does make cowards of us all..." ~Hamlet talking to his father in his tomb

I think this quote is so true about everything. It means that our conscious makes us not as brave as we would be without them. For example, if Claudius would not have been praying when Hamlet first saw him, Hamlet would've killed him in the blink of an eye. When we think about doing something wrong, we usually think about how guilty we will feel, so we decide not to do it. However, there are times when people still do these bad things, but it just results in them telling everything they did wrong because they still feel so guilty, and then they get their punishment. This is another quote that really makes me realize how creative Shakespeare was, he was so right in just that little phrase.