21 Quotations by Francois de Salignac Fenelon
- 1. All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more ...
- 2. Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those ...
- 3. Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
- 4. Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must be ...
- 5. Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
- 6. Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
- 7. Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
- 8. How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
- 9. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
- 10. If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exc ...
- 11. If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associat ...
- 12. Little opportunities should be improved.
- 13. Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of n ...
- 14. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very w ...
- 15. Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedie ...
- 16. Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thor ...
- 17. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the ...
- 18. The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
- 19. The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts ...
- 20. Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
Francois De Salignac Fenelon Quotes by Power Quotations
|