The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.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.
Francois Fenelon
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
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Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you tell him your joys, that he may sober them tell him your longings, that he may purify them tell him your dislikes, that he may help you coquer them talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.
Francois Fenelon
There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the 'intellectual' as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways into the simplicity of faith and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross.
Francois Fenelon
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