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



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Author Profession: Clergyman
Nationality: French
Born: 1651
Died: 1715

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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Words
Carried, Exactness, Extremes, Mind, Moderation, Narrows, Neatness, The Mind, Virtue
Definitions
Carried, Exactness, Mind, Moderation, Narrows, neatness, Virtue
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