Tao Te Ching

“Some, like Tolstoy, found this in the outlook of simple people, unspoiled by civilization; like Rousseau, he wished to believe that the moral universe of peasants was not unlike that of children, not distorted by the conventions and institution of civilization, which sprang from human vices”

— Isaiah Berlin 1909 – 1997 CE
"the world's greatest talker"
from The Proper Study of Mankind