Sensitive Period

Famous quotes containing the words sensitive and/or period:

“We are sensitive to good or ill fortune only in proportion to our self-love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“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)