Francois Fenelon

Biography

Quotes

  • Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
  • 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.
  • All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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