“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Quand le despotisme est dans les lois, la liberté se trouve dans les mœurs, et vice versa.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“The body may fear and tremble, while the mind is calm and courageous, or vice versa. This is the key to many moral eccentricities.”
Source: A Bachelor's Establishment (1842), Ch. IX.
Context: There are two species of timidity, — the timidity of the mind, and the timidity of the nerves; a physical timidity, and a moral timidity. The one is independent of the other. The body may fear and tremble, while the mind is calm and courageous, or vice versa. This is the key to many moral eccentricities. When the two are united in one man, that man will be a cipher all his life.
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