Late Seventeenth Century

Famous quotes containing the words seventeenth century, late, seventeenth and/or century:

    It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.
    Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    It is so very late that we
    May call it early by and by. Good night.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.
    Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    Know thyself.
    —Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....