Quote: 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. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Little opportunities should be improved. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily! [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew - [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: Do not wish to be anything except what you are. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife. [Fransua Fenelon]
Quote: There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. [Fransua Fenelon]