And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.[Handle so, als ob deine Maxime zugleich zum allgemeinen gesetze (aller vernünftigen Wesen) dienen sollte.]
A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.