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Man Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi
- In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
- Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
- 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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