Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Confidence
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Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
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The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
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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.
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He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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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.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author