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From Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi
- You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
- 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…
- There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how…
- Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
- Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire…
- Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme…
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