Quote of François Fénelon - Do not make best friends with...
Biography - François Fénelon:
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon. French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
Born: 1651 - Died: 1715
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1651 - Died: 1715
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
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Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
François Fénelon also said...
Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
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