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Franois de Salignac de la Mothe, more commonly known as Franois Fnelon (1651 - 1715), was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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"How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak."

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

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

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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."

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"Little opportunities should be improved."

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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."

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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."

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

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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."

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