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> [“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/civilization-is-in-fact-the-longest-story-of-all-civilization-can/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

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## More by Fernand Braudel

> [There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/there-were-two-three-or-four-french-revolutions-like-a-multi-stage/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/there-are-always-some-areas-world-history-does-not-reach-zones-of/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/happiness-whether-in-business-or-private-life-leaves-very-little/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/everything-must-be-recaptured-and-relocated-in-the-general-framework/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/all-history-must-be-mobilized-if-one-would-understand-the-present/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/the-mere-smell-of-cooking-can-evoke-a-whole-civilization/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [ “When the \[colonial\] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/when-the-colonial-contact-was-violent-in-fact-failure-was-more/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/history-may-be-divided-into-three-movements-what-moves-rapidly-what/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/for-a-century-the-arabs-tribes-gave-islam-the-first-of-these/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/events-are-the-ephemera-of-history-they-pass-across-its-stage-like/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/the-key-problem-is-to-find-out-why-that-sector-of-society-of-the-past/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/the-companies-only-developed-if-the-state-did-not-intervene-in-the/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/social-science-virtually-abhors-the-event-not-without-reason-the/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/happiness-whether-in-business-or-private-life-leaves-little-trace-in/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

> [The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-braudel/the-earth-is-like-our-own-skin-fated-to-carry-the-scars-of-ancient/)

[Fernand Braudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-braudel/)

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