Originally Posted by
Chris596
I don’t know how to get started, but I feel like I’ve really ruined my life. I am a very naive and stupid person. Last year I met some bad people who led me to believe that they are my friends, meanwhile they just took advantage of my kindness and stupidity. I did a lot of stupid things that I already regret. I shake and tremble as I am currently writing this. I am talking about really evil and manipulative people... most of them completely cut the connection with me..
My nigga, no one is your friend unless you were in serious military combat with them or did some hard core political activism with them. Everything in life is either business or sex.
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For what is our civilised world but a big masquerade? where you meet knights, priests, soldiers, men of learning, barristers, clergymen, philosophers, and I don't know what all! But they are not what they pretend to be; they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers. One man, I suppose, puts on the mask of law, which he has borrowed for the purpose from a barrister, only in order to be able to give another man a sound drubbing; a second has chosen the mask of patriotism and the public welfare with a similar intent; a third takes religion or purity of doctrine. For all sorts of purposes men have often put on the mask of philosophy, and even of philanthropy, and I know not what besides. Women have a smaller choice. As a rule they avail themselves of the mask of morality, modesty, domesticity, and humility. Then there are general masks, without any particular character attaching to them like dominoes. They may be met with everywhere; and of this sort is the strict rectitude, the courtesy, the sincere sympathy, the smiling friendship, that people profess. The whole of these masks as a rule are merely, as I have said, a disguise for some industry, commerce, or speculation. It is merchants alone who in this respect constitute any honest class. They are the only people who give themselves out to be what they are; and therefore they go about without any mask at all, and consequently take a humble rank. --Arthur Schopenhauer
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