Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld