“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.