TRES DE GIAMBATTISTA VICO

“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race”.

"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”.

"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”.