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Instructions and Counsels on Christian Morals and Perfection

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

This book is in French.

The core of the Spiritual Works: counsels, instructions and short treatises of direction written for people of the world, of the court and of communities (time, crosses, the presence of God, fidelity in little things, renunciation, freedom, abandonment). First published as “Divers sentimens et avis chrétiens” (1718, 1738); here in the order of the Saint-Sulpice edition of 1851.

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Source: Machine-cleaned OCR: running heads, page numbers and hyphenation removed, paragraphs rejoined, obvious character errors corrected by a vote against the corpus vocabulary; period spelling kept. Residual OCR errors remain (see PROBLEMS.md). The piece titles are mostly lost in the OCR, so the text is cut into parts of about 6,500 words; legible titles are kept as ## subheads.