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.
Giambattista VicoPolitical Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
Giambattista VicoPeople first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.
Giambattista VicoGovernments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.
Giambattista Vico