Francois Fénelon citáty
Francois Fénelon
Datum narození: 6. srpen 1651
Datum úmrtí: 7. leden 1715
François Fénelon, plným jménem François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon byl francouzský teolog, básník a spisovatel, od roku 1696 arcibiskup v Cambrai. Byl zastáncem kvietismu. Jeho nejznámějším literárním dílem jsou Příhody Telemachovy , jež napsal jako vychovatel burgundského vévody Ludvíka, vnuka Ludvíka XIV., pro svého svěřence.
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„All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.“
— François Fénelon
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699), Tout le genre humain n’est qu’une famille dispersée sur la face de toute la terre. Tous les peuples sont frères, et doivent s’aimer comme tels.
Bk. 9, p. 67; translation p. 162.
„In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.“
— François Fénelon
Nous verrons à sa lumière, dans l'éternité, que ce que nous désirions nous eût été funeste, et que ce que nous voulions éviter était essentiel à notre bonheur.
Instructions et avis sur divers points de la morale et de la perfection chrétienne, ch. 18, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1845) vol. 1, p. 325; translation from Selections from the Writings of Fénelon (Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1844) p. 82.
„Jesus Christ was born in a stable; He was obliged to fly into Egypt; thirty years of His life were spent in a workshop; He suffered hunger, thirst, and weariness; He was poor, despised, and miserable; He taught the doctrines of heaven, and no one would listen. The great and the wise persecuted and took Him, subjected Him to frightful torments, treated Him as a slave, and put Him to death between two malefactors, having preferred to give liberty to a robber, rather than to suffer Him to escape. Such was the life which our Lord chose; while we are horrified at any kind of humiliation, and cannot bear the slightest appearance of contempt.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 60.
„Men are very much to be pitied in that they are to be governed by a king who is but a man like them; for it would require Gods to reform men. But kings are not less to be pitied, since being but men, that are weak and imperfect, they are to govern this innumerable multitude of corrupt and deceitful men.“
— François Fénelon
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699), Les hommes sont fort à plaindre d'avoir à être gouvernés par un roi, qui n'est qu'homme semblable à eux; car il faudroit des dieux pour redresser les hommes. Mais les rois ne sont pas moins à plaindre, n'étant qu'hommes, c'est-à-dire foibles et imparfaits, d'avoir à gouverner cette multitude innombrable d'hommes corrompus et trompeurs.
Bk. 10, p. 72; translation p. 174.
„Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.“
— François Fénelon
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.
