Francois Fenelon Quotes

• The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

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• All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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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.

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• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

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• Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

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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.

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• Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

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• If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

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• Little opportunities should be improved.

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• Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

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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.

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• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

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• Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

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Francois Fenelon (13)

Birth:	6th August, 1651
Death:	7th January, 1715
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Author, Bishop, Poet, Theologian

About

Francois Fenelon was born in Sainte-Mondane, France. He was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, author, theologian, and poet. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699. He wrote several books include: The Complete Fenelon, The Seeking Heart, Spiritual Letters, Meditations on the Heart of God, The Royal Way of the Cross, Maxims of the Saints, Talking with God, Telemachus, Son of Ulysses, The Education of a Daughter, Let Go, and The Existence of God.

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