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

Giambattista Vico
Nature, Firsts, Fierce
Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.