Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

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• Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
• You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
• He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
• People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
• The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
• He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they…
• Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
• The end of pain we take as happiness.
• In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
• No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins…
• A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
• If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.
• Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
• The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
• Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
• Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that…
• The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,…
• The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that…
• The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline…
• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every…

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