False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph De Maistre
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  2. Every country has the government it deserves.

  3. Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

  4. I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

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