“What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.”
Quote by Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
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