“The difference between you and myself,” said a friend to me,
whilst I have left them the hope that they are deceiving me.
That is why the world favours me more than you.
It is a masked ball, the interest of which you have spoiled for others
and the amusement for yourself.”
Nicolas de Chamfort (1741–1794) France
Translated by William G. Hutchison
Source: The Cynic’s Breviary: The Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort. Translated by William G. Hutchison, Elkin Mathews, 1902
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