Confidence Quote by Voltaire

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent…

— Isaac Barrow

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

— Homer

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of…

— Musonius Rufus

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of…

— Philip Ghezelbash

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

— Jane Porter

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

— Samuel Johnson

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a…

— Gustave Flaubert

I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not…

— Christiane Northrup

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”

— Georges Rodenbach

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us…

— Pauline Kael

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke