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Type: Clergyman Quotes Category: French Clergyman Quotes Year of Birth: 1651 Year of Death: 1715 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Francois Fenelon Related Authors: Francois Rabelais Joseph Roux Abbe Pierre Ernest Dimnet Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal De Retz Alfred Loisy |
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois Fenelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. Francois Fenelon Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois Fenelon Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. Francois Fenelon Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. Francois Fenelon Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. Francois Fenelon If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. Francois Fenelon Little opportunities should be improved. Francois Fenelon Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. Francois Fenelon There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Francois Fenelon |
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