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

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Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press

Giambattista Vico

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“As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam
“I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him.”
“Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.”
“Custom does often reason overrule.”
“Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.”
“It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”
“Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.”

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