Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back. - Honoré de Balzac (Lost Illusions Quotes)

Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.[La conscience, mon cher, est un de ces bâtons que chacun prend pour battre son voisin, et dont il ne se sert jamais pour lui.]

Source:(Gebbie Publishing Co., ed. 1898), A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839), Part II, Page 154
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