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Francois Fenelon Quotes

Francois Fenelon Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Francois Fenelon
Type:
Clergy
Nationality:
French
Birth year:

  • 1
    A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 2
    All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 3
    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-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 4
    Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 5
    Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 6
    Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 7
    Little opportunities should be improved. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 8
    Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. Francois-FenelonFrancois Fenelon
  • 9
    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-FenelonFrancois Fenelon