“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.”
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
