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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.”
― François Fénelon

“Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.”
― François Fénelon

“Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging our neighbors ... If you are faithful in keeping silence when it is not necessary to speak, God will preserve you from evil when it is right for you to talk.”
― François Fénelon

“Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.”
― François Fénelon