Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXII

Whom, then, to love? Whom to believe? Who is the only one that won't betray us?

Who measures all deeds and all speeches 4 obligingly by our own foot rule? Who does not sow slander about us? Who coddles us with care?

To whom our vice is not so bad? 8 Who never bores us? Efforts in vain not wasting (as would a futile phantom-seeker), love your own self, 12, my worthly honored reader. A worthy object! Surely, nothing more amiable exists.