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Giacomo Leopardi quotes: In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.

Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: 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.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again

Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.

Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: The end of pain we take as happiness.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.

If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: 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.

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.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Giacomo Leopardi quotes: The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.