Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie." - Meaning and context.">
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Above all, do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the evil charms of geometry.
• Lettres Spirituelles, no. 59, cited from Correspondance de Fénelon, archevêque de Cambrai (Paris: Ferra Jeune, 1827) vol. 5, p. 514; translation from Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (eds.) A History of Women in the West (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994) vol. 3, p. 405.Œuvres complètes De François de Salignac De La Mothe Fénélon. TOME V Briand 1810 LETTRE CXLII (142) p.106.
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Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie.

— François Fénelon

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie." in the context of "Above all, do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the evil charms of geometry.
• Lettres Spirituelles, no. 59, cited from Correspondance de Fénelon, archevêque de Cambrai (Paris: Ferra Jeune, 1827) vol. 5, p. 514; translation from Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (eds.) A History of Women in the West (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994) vol. 3, p. 405.Œuvres complètes De François de Salignac De La Mothe Fénélon. TOME V Briand 1810 LETTRE CXLII (142) p.106." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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François Fénelon

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.