Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Quotes
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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by their condition to desire a revolution.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
