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Giacomo Leopardi has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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