Sonnet - The World's Like This

You give an inch and people take a mile; You show them kindness which they don't deserve; Be lenient and time they try to while; Forgive them and thine enemies, they serve. You condescend; they think you are a clown; You help them and they show ingratitude; A villager is crazy after a town; Be gentle and they turn to be so rude. The virtuous man lands up wrongly in vice; From venial sins, he commits mortal ones; There is no one who takes free good advice; The brainy child works less and turns a dunce. You cannot judge people in simple ways; You can't believe the human ayes and nays.