Why should we be enemies?
Our tastes are different; our pursuits need not interfere.

We both of us amply possess the means of happiness; We may be respected by all, and spend a long life of tranquillity and enjoyment.

Will it be wise in us to exchange this prospect for the fruits of strife?
A strife between persons with our peculiarities and our weaknesses, includes consequences that I shudder to think of.

I fear, sir, that it is pregnant with death at least to one of us, and with misfortune and remorse to the survivor." "Upon my soul, you are a strange man! Why trouble me with your prophecies and forebodings ?" "Because it is necessary to your happiness! Because it becomes me to tell you of our danger now, rather than wait till my character will allow this tranquillity no longer! "By quarrelling we shall but imitate the great mass of mankind, who could easily quarrel in our place.

Let us do better.