It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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