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.
• Bk. 9, p. 67; translation p. 162.
• Bk. 9, p. 67; translation p. 162.
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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.
— François Fénelon
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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." in the context of "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.
• Bk. 9, p. 67; translation p. 162." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "François Fénelon" (Quotes, Les aventures de Télémaque (1699): Quotations in French are cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3; quotations in English from an anonymous translation, The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses (Philadelphia: Mathew Cary, 1806).)
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About François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (August 6 1651 – January 7 1715) was a French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher.
About François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (August 6 1651 – January 7 1715) was a French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher.
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