"But it's not fair," you say. "I told you my neighbor's secrets. Now you should tell me yours." Did I ask for your secrets? Did you share your business with conditions attached — that I had to share mine back? If you're a gossip who thinks everyone you meet is your friend, do you want me to be just like you? You did well to trust me with your business. But it wouldn't be wise for me to trust you with mine. So why do you want me to be that reckless?
True, but it is unfair when you have heard the secrets of your neighbor for you in your turn to communicate nothing to him. Did I ask you for your secrets, my man? did you communicate your affairs on certain terms, that you should in return hear mine also? If you are a babbler and think that all who meet you are friends, do you wish me also to be like you? But why, if you did well in intrusting your affairs to me, and it is not well for me to intrust mine to you, do you wish me to be so rash?