Francois Fenelon Quotes
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon
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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
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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
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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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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois Fenelon
