Francois Fenelon Quotes
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.
What is interesting about this quotation is that there were many at the time who thought that different people in different parts of the world and cultures were of different species. Science at that point did not even realize that all humans had a common ancestor. It makes the quotation all the more interesting.
Francois Fenelon, 1651–1715, French Archbishop of Cambrai, Political and Religious Philosopher, Les aventures de Télémaque, 1699
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (French: [də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃]), more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.