“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.”

Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), I. On Confidence

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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