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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
By Francois FeNelon
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
By Francois FeNelon
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.
By 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.
By Francois FeNelon
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.
By Francois FeNelon
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
By Francois FeNelon
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
By Francois FeNelon
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
By Francois Fenelon
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
By Francois Fenelon
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
By Francois Fenelon
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.
By Francois Fenelon
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
By Francois Fenelon