Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude that if people say nothing of their doings it is because their doings will not bear being talked about; so the highly respectable merchant became a scoundrel, and the late beau was an old rogue.[Suivant la logique des gens à tête vide, tous indiscrets parce qu’ils n’ont que des riens à dire, ceux qui ne parlent pas de leurs affaires en doivent faire de mauvaises. Ce négociant si distingué devint donc un fripon, ce galantin fut un vieux drôle.]
Source:(Avil Publishing Co., ed. 1901), Page 25
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