Michel de Montaigne Confidence Quotations

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

It needs courage to be afraid.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.