The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Giambattista Vico
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
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