More From Francois Fenelon
- "A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
- "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."
More In Men
- "Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it."― Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy."― Bill Cosby
- "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."― Blaise Pascal