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NUMBER:62845
QUOTATION:It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
ATTRIBUTION:Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian philosopher, historian. conclusion, para. 1108 (ed. 1744, trans. 1984).
 
 
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