The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
Francois FenelonNothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
Francois FenelonI had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
Francois Fenelon