Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
Francois FenelonA general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
Francois FenelonIt is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.
Francois FenelonThe blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
Francois Fenelon