21 ordspråk av Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon
 Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. |
| 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. |
| If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all |
| If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. |
| 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. |
| All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. |
| A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. |
| Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. |
| Little opportunities should be improved. |
| There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power |
| 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 |
| The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it |
| The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied |
| The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied |
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