Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.