Francois de La Rochefoucauld - What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutua...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Zitate

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Was Männer als Freundschaft bezeichnet haben, ist nur ein soziales Arrangement, eine gegenseitige Anpassung der Interessen, ein Austausch von gegebenen und erhaltenen Dienstleistungen; Alles in allem ist es einfach ein Geschäft, aus dem die Beteiligten einen stetigen Gewinn für ihre eigene Liebe ziehen wollen.

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