Being on everybody's tongue, being furtively watched by the prettiest girls is the advantage of boys who work their way up laughing
at the expense of the concern of their former friends who do not understand the betrayal and withdraw
in a hurt longing for the former intimacy (Some guys exaggerate their toughness, they overshoot
the mark, so that everyone suffers a loss, no a person can't be worse)
Essay "Le leggi fondamentali della stupiditΓ umana" ("The basic laws of human stupidity", 1976, Carlo Cipolla [Pavia 1922-2000]): there are bandits, intelligent, helpless and stupid people