Francois Fenelon

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

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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.

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To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

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The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

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Quotes by Francois Fenelon