The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.


Book III, ch. 1. Of Profit and Honesty - Essais (1595) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.

The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.

The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.

The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.