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.”

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

“A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.”