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Giambattista Vico quotes: Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Giambattista Vico quotes: Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Giambattista Vico quotes: Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Giambattista Vico quotes: Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

Giambattista Vico quotes: The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico quotes: People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Giambattista Vico quotes: Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Giambattista Vico quotes: Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Giambattista Vico quotes: Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

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

Giambattista Vico quotes: The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Giambattista Vico quotes: One truly understands only what one can create.

One truly understands only what one can create.

Giambattista Vico quotes: A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.

A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.