"Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it."

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Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe  cheurs; les autres pe  cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

— Blaise Pascal