Francois de La Rochefoucauld Confidence Quotations

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

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.