Quotes by FeNelon, Francois

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

FeNelon, Francois on detail
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"How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak."

FeNelon, Francois on devotions
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"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate."

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

FeNelon, Francois on friends and friendship
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"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."

FeNelon, Francois on negotiation
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"Little opportunities should be improved."

FeNelon, Francois on opportunity
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"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."

FeNelon, Francois on past
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"Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own."

FeNelon, Francois on self-examination
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"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."

FeNelon, Francois on spirituality
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"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."

FeNelon, Francois on books - reading
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"The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit."

FeNelon, Francois on brevity
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"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."

FeNelon, Francois on children
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"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others."

FeNelon, Francois on complaints and complaining
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