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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
Explore more quotes by Francois Fenelon
"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."
"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."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
"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."
"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."
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