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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.   Vico, Giambattista

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Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (June 23, 1668January 23, 1744) was a Neapolitan philosopher, historian, and jurist.

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