Giambattista Vico Men Quotations

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

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

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.

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.