Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons. - François de La Rochefoucauld

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 which gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit. I do not wish from what I have said to depreciate confidence, so necessary to man.

L'intérêt, qui aveugle les uns, fait la lumière des autres.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.