Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations."
"Molti sentiranno come me, che non siete fatta per parlare di voi, ma per ascoltare le altrui confidenze; capiranno che voi non le ascolterete con malevolenza né con disprezzo, ma con una naturale simpatia, che consola e incoraggia, benché non si manifesti troppo vivamente.