Honore de Balzac Quotes

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Honore de Balzac

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• Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Conscience
  • Passions
  • Human Laws