Giovanni Vico

"Excellence comes through practice"

"Time reveals all truth"

"Justice is divine"

"Knowledge is power"

"Life is a journey of discovery"

"Perseverance is the path to excellence"

"Beauty is truth made visible"

"Strength comes from moral conviction"

"Fear is the beginning of wisdom"

"The nature of things is nothing other than their coming into being at certain times and in certain ways."

"Men are disposed to take sides, and it is easier for them to hate than to love."

"History is the science of what has been."

"The true is convertible with the made."

"We cannot know anything of which we have not made ourselves the cause."

"Barbarism is the natural state from which all nations have arisen."

"Wisdom must be accompanied by social utility to be truly valuable."

"The course of the nations is determined by Providence working through human nature."

"To be ignorant of what came before you is to remain forever a child."

"The world of nations is made by man, therefore its principles must be found in the modifications of the human mind."

"True knowledge is knowledge of causes."

"Poetry must precede prose in the evolution of human thought."

"The institutions of mankind are not made by chance but by Providence and wisdom."

"Language itself is the archive of all human knowledge."

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

"Customs are the guardians of law and the pillars of society."

"The dream of philosophy is to see the particular in the universal."

"In the beginning, men were all poets and inventors."

"Truth cannot contradict truth, for reality is one."

"The human mind is naturally a dreamer and a creator of worlds."

"Poverty and oppression are the children of ignorance."